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Science 2 September 1966:
Vol. 153. no. 3740, pp. 1133 - 1135
DOI: 10.1126/science.153.3740.1133
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Occurrence of Isoprenoid Fatty Acids in the Green River Shale

Geoffrey Eglinton 1, A. G. Douglas 1, James R. Maxwell 1, J. N. Ramsay 1, and S. Ställberg-Stenhagen 2

1 Department of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, W.2., Scotland
2 Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

The most abundant free fatty acids present in a sample of shale from the Green River Formation (Eocene, about 60 x 106 years) from Sulfur Creek are the acylic C19 and C20 isoprenoid acids. The dominance of these acids parallels the abundance of the corresponding hydrocarbons pristane and phytane.


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