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The formation or generation of hopanes are important processes during both the natural heating of organic-rich sediments and laboratory pyrolysis experiments. Molecular maturity parameters as well as the amounts (ng/g rock) of the C-31 hopanes and C-30-C-32 hopanoic acids were quantified in a Jurassic silty shale horizon (Isle of Skye, Scotland) as a function of distance from an igneous intrusion. The maturity profiles of the homohopanes and the hopanoic acids are comparable. There is also a correlation between the decreasing amounts of C-30-C-32 hopanoic acids and concomitant increases in C-29-C-31 hopanes suggesting that free hopanoic acids could be one potential source of hopanes in this particular horizon. Other possible sources could include hopanoic acids that are bound into the macromolecular fraction. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Author(s): Bennett B, Abbott GD
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Organic Geochemistry
Year: 1999
Volume: 30
Issue: 12
Pages: 1509-1516
Print publication date: 03/12/1999
ISSN (print): 0146-6380
ISSN (electronic): 1873-5290
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0146-6380(99)00122-9
DOI: 10.1016/S0146-6380(99)00122-9
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