The analysis and application of biomarkers
Biomarkers (molecular fossils) are derived from lipids and photosynthetic pigments from organisms that lived long ago in the past. In sedimentary systems, lipids can be reduced to biomarkers. Biomarkers can exist in sediments and oils over hundreds of millions of years. Many of the biomarkers encoun...
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Elsevier Science
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/5117 |