Petrological, organic geochemical and geochemical characteristics of coal from the Soko mine, Serbia

International Journal of Coal Geology

Volumn 73, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 285-306

  Životić, Dragana ^a   Wehner, Herman ^b   Cvetković, Olga ^c   Jovančićević, Branimir ^c,d   Gržetić, Ivan ^d   Scheeder, Georg ^b   Vidal, Angelika ^b   Šajnović, Aleksandra ^c   Ercegovac, Marko ^e   Simić, Vladimir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^c Center of Chemistry   (Serbia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^e SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Coal petrography; Lower Miocene; Soko Banja basin; Trace element

Indexed keywords

CARBONACEOUS CLAY; COAL PETROGRAPHY; COAL SEAM; INERTODETRINITE; LIPTINITE GROUP;

BIOMARKERS; CLAY MINERALS; FLUORESCENCE; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROCARBONS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; PETROLOGY; TRACE ELEMENTS;

COAL MINES;

ALKANE; BIOMARKER; COAL MINE; COAL SEAM; LIGNITE; MACERAL; MIOCENE; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; PETROGRAPHY; PETROLOGY; TRACE ELEMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SERBIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 38049050311     PISSN: 01665162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coal.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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