Aspects of biomarker analysis by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry with selective metastable ion monitoring : Part 2. Information contest of biomarkers in some light oils

✍ Scribed by Olav H.J. Christie; Trygve Meyer; Paul W. Brooks

• Book ID: 104100285
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 555 KB
• Volume: 161
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-2670
• DOI: 10.1016/s0003-2670(00)85778-5

✦ Synopsis

The information content of steranes and pentacyclic triterpanes is extracted by means of eigenvector (factor) analysis. Steranes carry information different from that of hopanes even though they both provide information about the maturity of the source rock. Moretanes and 20R hopanes provide similar information which differs from that of 20s hopanes. The steranes carry somewhat different information, which is opposite to that carried by a series of unidentified triterpanes. The diacholestanes and cholestanes yield different types of information.