Chemical forms of sulfur in geological and archeological asphaltenes from Middle East, France, and Spain determined by sulfur K- and L-edge X-ray absorption near-edge structure spectroscopy

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 63, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 3767-3779

  Sarret, Géraldine ^a   Connan, Jacques ^b   Kasrai, Masoud ^a   Bancroft, G Michael ^a   Charrié Duhaut, Armelle ^c   Lemoine, Sylvie ^c   Adam, Pierre ^c   Albrecht, Pierre ^c   Eybert Bérard, Laurent ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b CSTJF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHALTENE; BITUMEN; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; SULFUR;

EID: 0033383587     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(99)00205-7     Document Type: Article

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