Characterization of purified biomarker compounds using time of flight-secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS)

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 793-811

  Toporski, Jan ^a,b   Steele, Andrew ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Carbazoles; GC MS; Isoprenoids; n alkanes; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; ToF SIMS

Indexed keywords

ION PROBE TECHNIQUES; ISOPRENOIDS; MOLECULAR IONS;

BIOMARKERS; COMPLEXATION; IONS; MIXTURES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARAFFINS; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

BIOMARKER; ION MICROPROBE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; PAH;

EID: 2642555727     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2004.03.006     Document Type: Article

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