Biomarkers in crude oil revealed by comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometry: Depositional paleoenvironment proxies

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 154-164

  Oliveira, Cristiane R ^a,c   Ferreira, Alexandre A ^b   Oliveira, Cleverson J F ^b   Azevedo, Débora A ^a   Santos Neto, Eugênio V ^b   Aquino Neto, Francisco R ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSIGNMENT OF; COMPOSITIONAL HETEROGENEITY; COMPREHENSIVE TWO-DIMENSIONAL GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; ENDMEMBERS; GENETIC DIFFERENCES; HOPANES; MARINE OIL; METHYLHOPANE; OIL SAMPLES; PALEO-ENVIRONMENT; PEAK CAPACITY; STERANES; TERPANES; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

BIOMARKERS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CRUDE OIL; HYDROCARBONS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SMOKE DETECTORS;

ISOMERS;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOMARKER; CRUDE OIL; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HETEROGENEITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SAMPLING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84859775803     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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