Insights into preservation of fossil plant cuticles using thermally assisted hydrolysis methylation

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 784-794

  Aucour, Anne Marie ^a   Faure, Pierre ^b   Gomez, Bernard ^c   Hautevelle, Yann ^b   Michels, Raymond ^b   Thévenard, Frédéric ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b CRPG CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FOSSIL PLANT; GEOPOLYMER; PY-GC-MS; PYROLYSIS GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; ROCK MATRIX; SHORT CHAIN COMPOUND; THERMAL TREATMENT;

ALKYLATION; BLEACHING; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; CLEANING; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); FATTY ACIDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEAT TREATMENT; HYDROLYSIS; INORGANIC POLYMERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; MINERALS; MINING; OLEFINS; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; SOLVENTS; UNSATURATED POLYMERS;

KEROGEN;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRETACEOUS; CUTICLE; FATTY ACID; HYDROLYSIS; LEAF; METHYLATION; POLYMERIZATION; PYROLYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CONIFERALES; FRENELOPSIS; GINKGOALES; NEHVIZDYA PENALVERI;

EID: 67349198606     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2009.04.006     Document Type: Article

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