Methylhopanes: Biomarkers for Oil Source Correlation
18/10/2022
By Paul Farrimond
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18/10/2022
By Paul Farrimond
Go to: Methylhopanes: Biomarkers for Oil Source Correlation1/7/2022
Biomarkers (biological marker compounds), in a petroleum geochemical context, are molecules found in oils and source rocks that have a chemical structure that can be unambiguously linked to a known natural product in living organisms.
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Another technical note in the Art of Science series by Dan Cornford of IGI Ltd.
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A short note by Dan Cornford on the place of machine learning in the geosciences, part of the Art of Science series of technical notes.
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IGI (Marianne Nuzzo) contributed to a research article published this month in Geology...
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An article in the “Art of Science” series, by Dan Cornford exploring and explaining the use of statistics, machine learning and more widely data science in the geosciences.
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by Marianne Nuzzo and Mischa Gehlen
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Kerogen is the semi-solid polymeric material that is insoluble in both water and organic solvents, and which forms the majority of the organic matter present in a petroleum source rock.
Go to: Biomarkers in kerogen by Paul Farrimond