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Amber, resinite, and fossil resins : developed from a symposium sponsored by the Division of Geochemistry at the 208th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, August 21-25, 1994 /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: American Chemical Society. Division of Geochemistry, American Chemical Society. Meeting
Other Authors: Anderson, Ken B., 1962-, Crelling, John C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : American Chemical Society, 1995.
Series:ACS symposium series ; 617.
Subjects:
Resins, Fossil > Congresses.
Amber > Congresses.
Resinite > Congresses.
Organic geochemistry > Congresses.
Résines fossiles > Congrès.
Ambre jaune > Congrès.
Résinite > Congrès.
Géochimie organique > Congrès.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
NATURE > Rocks & Minerals.
Amber
Organic geochemistry
Resinite
Resins, Fossil
Ambre > Congrès.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Biology of amber-producing trees : focus on case studies of Hymenaea and Agathis / Jean H. Langenheim
  • Stable isotope composition of amber / Arie Nissenbaum and Dan Yakir
  • Resin-derived hydrocarbons in fresh and fossil dammar resins and Miocene rocks and oils in the Mahakam Delta, Indonesia / Scott A. Stout
  • Pyrolytic and spectroscopic studies of the diagenetic alteration of resinites / Tatsushi Murae, Shuji Shimokawa, and A. Aihara
  • Maturation of class Ib (polylabdanoid) resinites / David J. Clifford and Patrick G. Hatcher
  • New evidence concerning the structure, composition, and maturation of class I (polylabdanoid) resinites / Ken B. Anderson
  • Gedanite and gedano-succinite / Edith C. Stout, Curt W. Beck, and Barbara Kosmowska-Ceranowicz
  • Unusual resin chemistry from Upper Carboniferous pteridosperm resin rodlets / P.F. van Bergen, M.E. Collinson, A.C. Scott, and J.W. de Leeuw
  • Analysis of fossil resins from Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian Arctic / Ken B. Anderson and Ben A. LePage
  • Resin from Africa and South America : criteria for distinguishing between fossilized and recent resin based on NMR spectroscopy / Joseph B. Lambert, Suzanne C. Johnson, and George O. Poinar, Jr.
  • The age of Dominican amber / David A. Grimaldi
  • The petrology of resinite in American coals / John C. Crelling
  • Trace amino acid composition of natural resins : elucidating the nature of resinous artists' materials / S.M. Halpine
  • Amino acids in the amber matrix and in entombed insects / Xueyun S. Wang, Hendrik N. Poinar, George O. Poinar, Jr., and Jeffrey L. Bada
  • Dammar resin : a chemical model for reactions of Utah resinite / Richard Dutta and Harold H. Schobert
  • Recovery and characterization of macroscopic fossil resins from Western coals / Q. Yu, L. Li, and J.D. Miller.