Influence of floral assemblage, facies and diagenesis on petrography and organic geochemistry of the Eocene Bourgas coal and the Miocene Maritza-East lignite (Bulgaria)

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1498-1522

  Bechtel, A ^a   Sachsenhofer, R F ^a   Zdravkov, A ^b   Kostova, I ^c   Gratzer, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND GEOLOGY   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYL NAPHTHALENES; BOURGAS COALS; PENTACYCLIC TRITERPENOIDS;

BIOMARKERS; BITUMINOUS COAL; LIGNITE; LIPIDS; PETROGRAPHY;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

COAL; EOCENE; LIGNITE; MIOCENE; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY;

BULGARIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 27144556416     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2005.07.003     Document Type: Article

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