Computer Science
Scientific paper
Jun 1997
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997gecoa..61.2431k&link_type=abstract
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 61, Issue 12, pp.2431-2452
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Sulphurisation has been recognised as the most important diagenetic pathway acting on hopanoids in the organic-rich limestones, marlstone, and dolomite investigated. The qualitative and quantitative analysis of free and S-bound hopanoid moieties revealed that the incorporation of sulphur has a major impact on the carbon number distribution, the speciation and on the 22S/(22 S +22R) ratio of the hopanoids. C 35 carbon skeletons are preferentially preserved by sulphur incorporation at the end of the side chain. Hopanoid sulphides, with the sulphur atom attached to one carbon atom of ring D or E and to one carbon atom of the side chain (condensed-type), are predominantly formed from precursors with a partially degraded side chain. In all samples the degree of sulphurisation of hopanoids increases with increasing carbon number. The carbon skeleton speciation changes with maturation in favour of hopanoid thiophenes, which are evidently the most stable hopanoid sulphur compounds, and hopanes. Hopanes are mainly formed via a sulphurisation/desulphurisation pathway and increase in concentration with maturity. Their original carbon number distribution is strongly shifted towards the lower homologues. With increasing maturity only a slight dominance of the C 35 members emerges. The most abundant series of condensed-type hopanoid sulphides have a 22R homohopane carbon skeleton that is not isomerised during maturation. The generation of hopanes from these condensed-type hopanoid sulphides during maturation leads to 22S/(22 S +22R) ratios which increase with carbon number (e.g., from about 0.2 for C 31 to 0.5 for C 35 homologues). Data acquired from the sedimentary rock samples are supported by those obtained from artificial maturation experiments of a limestone by hydrous pyrolysis at different temperatures. The data show that generally accepted molecular maturation parameters have to be applied with caution.
de Leeuw Jan W.
Koopmans Martin P.
Köster Jörgen
Sinninghe Damst'e Jaap S.
van Kaam-Peters Heidy M. E.
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