Molecular preservation of plant and insect cuticles from the Oligocene Enspel Formation, Germany: Evidence against derivation of aliphatic polymer from sediment

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 404-418

  Gupta, Neal S ^a,b,c   Briggs, Derek E G ^c   Collinson, Margaret E ^d   Evershed, Richard P ^a   Michels, Raymond ^e   Pancost, Richard D ^a  

^a Cantock's Close   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT CUTICLES; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR TAPHONOMY;

MACROMOLECULES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PARAFFINS; PYROLYSIS; SEDIMENTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ALKANE; BEETLE; CHITIN; CONIFEROUS TREE; CUTICLE; DICOTYLEDON; FATTY ACID; FOSSIL RECORD; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OLIGOCENE; POLYMER; PRESERVATION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; TAPHONOMY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; ENSPEL; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; RHINELAND-PALATINATE; WESTERWALD;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CONIFEROPHYTA; CURCULIONIDAE; HEXAPODA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 33847016475     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2006.06.012     Document Type: Article

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