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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| author | Grice, Kliti Eiserbeck, Christiane |
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| description | 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 encountered in sediments and oils have been related to lipids of present-day biological systems, thus allowing their biomarker–precursor relationships to be established. They span the three domains of life: eukaryotes, bacteria, and archaea. This chapter represents a summary of biomarkers with respect to their origin (age), reconstructing environments of deposition and their association with some of the largest extinction events of the geologic past. The outlook includes analytical techniques recently employed to analyze biomarkers using, for example, 2D chromatographic techniques and other state-of-the-art mass spectrometry and various pyrolysis techniques. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-51172023-02-07T08:01:23Z The analysis and application of biomarkers Grice, Kliti Eiserbeck, Christiane Karl K. Turekian Heinrich D. Holland age diagnostic biomarker paleoenvironment paleotemperature mass extinction 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 encountered in sediments and oils have been related to lipids of present-day biological systems, thus allowing their biomarker–precursor relationships to be established. They span the three domains of life: eukaryotes, bacteria, and archaea. This chapter represents a summary of biomarkers with respect to their origin (age), reconstructing environments of deposition and their association with some of the largest extinction events of the geologic past. The outlook includes analytical techniques recently employed to analyze biomarkers using, for example, 2D chromatographic techniques and other state-of-the-art mass spectrometry and various pyrolysis techniques. 2013 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/5117 10.1016/B978-0-08-095975-7.01006-8 Elsevier Science restricted |
| spellingShingle | age diagnostic biomarker paleoenvironment paleotemperature mass extinction Grice, Kliti Eiserbeck, Christiane The analysis and application of biomarkers |
| title | The analysis and application of biomarkers |
| title_full | The analysis and application of biomarkers |
| title_fullStr | The analysis and application of biomarkers |
| title_full_unstemmed | The analysis and application of biomarkers |
| title_short | The analysis and application of biomarkers |
| title_sort | analysis and application of biomarkers |
| topic | age diagnostic biomarker paleoenvironment paleotemperature mass extinction |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/5117 |