Eastern Mediterranean sapropels: chemical structure, deposition and relation to oil-shales

2002-03-01
Dick, C
Ediger, V
Fabbri, D
Gaines, AF
Love, GD
McGinn, A
McRae, C
Murray, IP
Nicol, BJ
Snape, CE
Ten sapropels, deposited in three different basins of the eastern Mediterranean since the Miocene and selected from cores of the Deep Sea Drilling Programme have been characterised by elemental analysis; fluorescence, infra-red and NMR spectrometry, by pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and by catalytic hydrogenation at moderately high pressure. The sapropels are Types I-II kerogens, which have been oxidised, probably by a front experienced, since their deposition. Only one, from the Cretan basin, contained structures from lignin. The others, typical of a marine deposition, possessed aromaticities of about 0.2. Their detailed organic structures are described.

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Citation Formats
C. Dick et al., “Eastern Mediterranean sapropels: chemical structure, deposition and relation to oil-shales,” FUEL, pp. 431–448, 2002, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/68542.