Organic petrology developed as coal petrology at the beginning of the 20th century
dedicated mainly to the study of coals because of their utilization in industry. Coal petrology …

Deposition of marine black shales has commonly been interpreted as having involved a
high level of marine phytoplankton production that promoted high settling rates of organic …

Patterns of uranium–molybdenum covariation in marine sediments have the potential to
provide insights regarding depositional conditions and processes in paleoceanographic …

Shales and mudrocks are enriched with diverse suites of major elements and trace metals
that reflect their depositional environment, provenance and diagenesis. Here we present …

There have been many studies devoted to trace metals and their value in assessing the
paleoredox conditions of ancient marine deposition. Among them, molybdenum (Mo) is …

The origin of microscopically-amorphous organic matter (AOM) is problematic. It has been
extensively studied because it is the dominant kerogen constituent in petroleum source …

The Orca Basin, located in the Gulf of Mexico, is a highly stratified basin that collects
sedimentary particles of clastic origin (supplied by the Mississippi River) and of biogenic …

For the purposes of a high-resolution multi-disciplinary study of the Upper Jurassic
Kimmeridge Clay Formation, two boreholes were drilled at Swanworth Quarry and one at …

Machimosaurus was a large-bodied genus of teleosaurid crocodylomorph, considered to
have been durophagous/chelonivorous, and which frequented coastal marine/estuarine …

The distribution of diagenetic alterations in Upper Jurassic, siliciclastic shoreface sediments
from NW France has been linked to the sequence stratigraphic framework. Calcite cement in …