“…In geochemical studies, wide ranges of geochemical characteristics, such as biomarker ratios, are considered as inputs. This approach has already been extensively used (Øygard et al, 1984;Telnaes and Dahl, 1986;Raju and Mathur, 1995;Napitupulu et al, 2000;Eneogwe and Ekundayo, 2003;Gürgey, 2003;Zumberge et al, 2005;Justwan et al, 2006;He et al, 2012;Rabbani et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2014;Mashhadi and Rabbani, 2015;Alizadeh et al, 2017).…”