Table of Contents

Biological markers in grahamites and pyrobitumens, J.A.Curiale; biomarkers as source input indicators in source rocks of several terrestrial basins of China, X.Zeng et al; a new technique for oil/source-rock and oil/oil correlation, F.Behar and R.Pelet; correlation of oil-source biomarkers in Renqiu oilfield, North China, B.Liu et al; determination of the mineral-free nickel and vanadium contents of green river oil shale kerogen, G.J.Van Berkel and R.H.Filby; isolation, identification and correlation of porphyrins from some continental crude oil, source rocks, oil shales and coals of China, Z.Yang and Z.Cheng; studies on the structure of the terpenoid sulfide type biological markers in petroleum, J.D.Payzant et al; porphyrin types and epimers of triterpanes and steranes in coals of different ranks in southeastern Uinta region, Y.-D.Gu et al; biomarker comparisons of Michigan basin oils, K.W.Dunham et al; retene and pimanthrene from continental source rocks in China, Z.D.Cheng; separation of vanadium and nickel complexes from the athabasca oil sand asphaltenes, D.Tooulakou and R.H.Filby; using mean square difference of steranes and triterpanes to correlate crude oils and source rocks from Western-Liaohe depression, N.Jiang; determinaton of biomarkers in geological samples by tandem mass spectrometry, R.P.Philp and M.Johnston; some features of porphyrins and other biomarkers in crude oil and source rock from continental salt-lake sediments in China, Z.Yang et al; analysis of chlorophyll diagenesis III, the effect of metals on the phorbide to porphyrin transition, P.P.Zelmer et al; some features of pyrolysis-gas chromatography - mass spectrometry of kerogens from continental source rocks in China, T.Tong and F.Jia; presence of benzohopanes, monoaromatic secohopanes, and saturated hexacyclic hydrocarbons in petroleums from carbonate environments, G.G.L.Rinaldi et al; tandem mass spectrometric analyses of geoporphyrins, J.M.E.Quirke et al; incorporation of petropor phyrins into geochemical correlation problems, P.Sundaraman et al; a biological marker study of a tertiary sphagnum coal from Yunan province, PRC, J.Fu et al; application of biomarkers for characterization of natural waters - Black Trona Water, Y.Wang et al.

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T.F. Yen University of Southern California, Los Angeles. J.M. Moldowan Chevron Oil Field Research Co., Richmond, CA, USA