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Science 17 July 1964:
Vol. 145. no. 3629, pp. 263 - 264
DOI: 10.1126/science.145.3629.263
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Hydrocarbons of Biological Origin from a One-Billion-Year-Old Sediment

Geoffrey Eglinton 1, P. M. Scott 1, Ted Belsky 1, A. L. Burlingame 1, and Melvin Calvin 1

1 Department of Chemistry, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, and Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

The isoprenoid hydrocarbons, phytane (C20H42) and pristane (C19H40), are present in the oil seeping from the Precambrian Nonesuch formation at the White Pine Mine, Michigan. Gas-liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry provide the isolation and identification procedures.


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