The biogeochemical evolution of the Coorong during the mid- to late Holocene: An elemental, isotopic and biomarker perspective

Hydrocarbon generation potential and Miocene–Pliocene paleoenvironments of the Kangal Basin (Central Anatolia, Turkey)

“…The low Pr/Ph (<0.5) and Pr/n C 17 ratios (<0.5), combined with an abundance of pyrite crystals in the coals, indicate that these coals were deposited in anoxic and probably hypersaline conditions (Peters and Moldowan, 1993). These data also suggest a resemblance to the development of the Coorng (present-day lagoon) of Australia (McKirdy et al, 2010).…”

Characterizing microbial communities and processes in a modern stromatolite (SharkBay) using lipid biomarkers and two‐dimensional distributions of porewater solutes

“…Phytane can also be derived from archaeal ether lipids (Volkman, ), and this isoprenoid was identified in microbial mats where both ether‐bound phytane and phytene were proposed to be derived from archaeol (Jahnke et al ., ). No highly branched isoprenoid alkenes characteristic of diatoms (C 20 and C 25 ) were found in the mat, although diatoms have been previously reported in microbial mats from Shark Bay (Summons et al ., ; Allen et al ., ) and other contemporary hypersaline environments (McKirdy et al ., ).…”

Environmental conditions and microbial community structure during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event; a multi-disciplinary study from the Canning Basin, Western Australia

“…Sphagnum mosses) and aquatic macrophytes are common sources for odd-carbon-numbered mid-chain n-alkanes (C21, C23, C25), and their relative abundance can be used to trace macrophytes and/or bryophytes in ancient deposits (e.g. Ficken et al, 2000;Mead et al, 2005;McKirdy et al, 2010;Tulipani et al, 2014;Inglis et al, 2015). Some samples from Santalum-1A had alkane distributions that are dominated by mid-chain n-alkanes (Fig.…”