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The second edition of The Biomarker Guide is a fully updated and
expanded version of this essential reference. Now in two volumes,
it provides a comprehensive account of the role that biomarker
technology plays both in petroleum exploration and in understanding
Earth history and processes. Biomarkers and Isotopes in Petroleum
Exploration and Earth History itemizes parameters used to
genetically correlate petroleum and interpret thermal maturity and
extent of biodegradation. It documents most known petroleum systems
by geologic age throughout Earth history. The Biomarker Guide is an
invaluable resource for geologists, petroleum geochemists,
biogeochemists, and environmental scientists.
Biomarkers are compounds found in crude oil with structures
inherited from once-living organisms. They persist in oil spills,
refinery products and archaeological artifacts, and can be used to
identify the origin, geological age and environmental conditions
prevalent during their formation and alteration. These two volumes
will be an invaluable resource for geologists, petroleum
geochemists, biogeochemists, environmental and forensic scientists,
natural product chemists and archaeologists. The first of two
volumes of The Biomarker Guide discusses the origins of biomarkers
and introduces basic chemical principles relevant to their study.
It goes on to discuss analytical techniques, and the applications
of biomarkers in environmental and archaeological problems.
This book examines recent advances in the study of geochemical
biomarkers, more commonly known as molecular fossils. These
advances cover a wide range of applications including formation of
different ranks of coals, the diagenetic fate of biological
compounds in natural waters, the characterization of depositional
environments of petroleum source rocks and the classification of
precursor organisms by their molecular fossil remnants. In
addition, this volume contains the most extensive collection of
material on geochemical markers of the continental basins of China
yet to appear in the Western literature.
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