Evaluation of on-line pyrolysis two-dimensional gas chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometry (Py-GC×GC-ToFMS) on whole sediments from a Mediterranean sapropel sequence

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1263-1270

  Payeur, Amy L ^a   Meyers, Philip A ^a   Sacks, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS; ALKYL AROMATICS; ANALYTICAL CHALLENGE; EUXINIC CONDITIONS; GREEN SULFUR BACTERIA; HIGH PRODUCTIVITY; MARINE PRODUCTIVITY; MOLECULAR COMPOSITIONS; PYROLYSATES; PYROLYSIS PRODUCTS; PYROLYSIS TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT MATRICES; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; SHORTER CHAINS; TETRAMETHYL; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; TWO DIMENSIONAL GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BACTERIA; BENZENE; CHLOROPHYLL; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FERTILIZERS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROCARBONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PRODUCTIVITY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SULFUR; THIOPHENE;

PYROLYSIS;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MARINE SEDIMENT; MARL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; ORGANIC MATTER; PYROLYSIS; SAPROPEL; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CHLOROBI;

EID: 80053454867     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2011.07.008     Document Type: Article

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