The natural product biomarkers in succinite, glessite and stantienite ambers from Bitterfeld, Germany

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 140, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 27-49

  Yamamoto, Shuichi ^a   Otto, Angelika ^b   Krumbiegel, Günter ^c   Simoneit, Bernd R T ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bitterfeld ambers; gas chromatography mass spectrometry; glessite; Oligocene; stantienite; succinite; terpenoids

Indexed keywords

AMBER; ANGIOSPERM; BIOMARKER; CONIFEROUS TREE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOBOTANY;

BITTERFELD; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; SAXONY-ANHALT;

BETULA; EMBRYOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PICEA; PINACEAE;

EID: 33744915510     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

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