Water extraction of coals - potential for estimating low molecular weight organic acids as carbon feedstock for the deep terrestrial biosphere

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 985-991

  Vieth, Andrea ^a   Mangelsdorf, Kai ^a   Sykes, Richard ^b   Horsfield, Brian ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FEEDSTOCK; CARBON SOURCES; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ELSEVIER (CO); LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT ORGANIC ACIDS (LMWOA); LOW-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT (LMW); MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; NEW ZEALAND; PLEISTOCENE; SOXHLET; TERRESTRIAL BIOSPHERE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON (TOC); WATER EXTRACTION;

ACIDS; BIOSPHERICS; CARBON; COAL; EXTRACTION; LIPIDS; METAL RECOVERY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOLECULES; ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; RAW MATERIALS; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WATER CONTENT; WEIGHING;

ORGANIC CARBON;

BIOSPHERE; COAL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EOCENE; ESTIMATION METHOD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; ORGANIC ACID; PLEISTOCENE; SOLUBILITY; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; WAIKATO BASIN;

EID: 48049091390     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2008.02.012     Document Type: Article

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