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Molecular Biogeochemistry

Subject: Biology

Art: US Army, US Weather map from 1872, 1872 · Public domain

Instructors: Prof. Roger Summons, Dr. Florence Schubotz, Dr. Julio Sepulveda, Dr. Paula Welander
Term: Fall 2011
Level: Undergraduate, Graduate
What's inside: 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 12 other files · 2 web pages
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Molecular Biogeochemistry

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Lecture 1: Mass spectrometry for organic geochemists

Lecture 2: Biomarker concept & acetogenic lipids

Lecture 3: Acyclic isoprenoids

Lecture 4: Hopanoids part 1

Lecture 5: Hopanoids part 2

Lecture 6: Steroids part 1

Lecture 7: Steroids part 2

Lecture 8: Pigments

Lecture 9: Application of intact polar lipids as biomarkers

Lecture 10: Molecular biosignatures

Lecture 11: Petroleum formation and occurrence

Lecture 12: Oxygen deficiency in the past