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Hydrocarbons of Biological Origin from a One-Billion-Year-Old Sediment

G. Eglinton, P. M. Scott, T. Belsky, Alma L. Burlingame, Melvin Calvin

Science · 1964 · 211 citations · 19 references

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Abstract

The isoprenoid hydrocarbons, phytane (C(20)H(42)) and pristane (C(19)H(40)), are present in the oil seeping from the Precambrian Nonesuch formation at the White Pine Mine, Michigan. Gas-liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry provide the isolation and identification procedures.

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Advances in Organic Geochemistry

Umberto Colombo, G D Hobson · Soil Science · 1964 · 392 citations

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A postulated role of fatty acids in petroleum formation

James E. Cooper, E. E. Bray · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 1963 · 312 citations

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Pristane in Zooplankton

Max Blumer, M. M. Mullin, David W. P. Thomas · Science · 1963 · 192 citations

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Isoprenoid Hydrocarbons in Petroleum. Isolation of 2,6,10,14-Tetramethylpentadecane by High Temperature Gas-Liquid Chromatography

J. G. Bendoraitis, B. L. Brown, L. S. Hepner · Analytical Chemistry · 1962 · 157 citations

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Pristane in Zooplankton

Max Blumer, Michael M. Mullin, David W. P. Thomas · Science · 1963 · 152 citations

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