Maturation related changes in the distribution of ester bound fatty acids and alcohols in a coal series from the New Zealand Coal Band covering diagenetic to catagenetic coalification levels

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1063-1073

  Glombitza, Clemens ^a   Mangelsdorf, Kai ^a   Horsfield, Brian ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL BIOMASS; BEFORE AND AFTER; CATAGENESIS; COAL SAMPLE; COMPOSITIONAL CHANGES; DIAGENETICS; EARLY DIAGENESIS; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL LIFE; NEW ZEALAND; ORGANIC MATRIX; ORGANIC MATTER; POTENTIAL SUBSTRATE; SHORT-CHAIN FATTY ACIDS; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

BIOMASS; CELL MEMBRANES; COAL INDUSTRY; CYTOLOGY; DEBRIS; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; LIGNITE; OLEFINS; OPEN SYSTEMS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

FATTY ACIDS;

BIOMASS; CATAGENESIS; COALIFICATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FATTY ACID; LIGNITE; MATURATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PYROLYSIS; SUBSTRATE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 69949150199     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2009.07.008     Document Type: Article

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