Terpenoids in extracts of Lower Cretaceous ambers from the Basque-Cantabrian Basin (El Soplao, Cantabria, Spain): Paleochemotaxonomic aspects

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1089-1103

  Menor Salván, César ^a   Najarro, Maria ^b   Velasco, Francisco ^c   Rosales, Idoia ^b   Tornos, Fernando ^b   Simoneit, Bernd R T ^d,e  

^a CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARAUCARIACEAE; AZULENES; BASQUE-CANTABRIAN BASIN; CANTABRIA; CENOMANIAN; CUPRESSACEAE; DEHYDROABIETIC ACID; DIAGENETICS; DITERPENOIDS; FERRUGINOL; FOSSILIZED RESINS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; LOWER CRETACEOUS; MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION; PINACEAE; PLANT CUTICLES; PLANT TISSUES; SHALLOW MARINE; SILICICLASTICS; TERPENOIDS; UNCERTAIN STRUCTURES;

ACIDS; AMBER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHENOLS; RESINS;

LIPIDS;

AMBER; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOMARKER; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CONIFEROUS TREE; CRETACEOUS; CUTICLE; FOSSIL RECORD; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PALEOBOTANY; PLANT EXTRACT; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; TERPENE;

BASQUE-CANTABRIAN BASIN; CANTABRIA; SPAIN;

ARAUCARIACEAE; CHEIROLEPIDIACEAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; CUPRESSACEAE; FRENELOPSIS; PINACEAE; SORGHUM BICOLOR;

EID: 77956480886     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2010.06.013     Document Type: Article

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