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Formation of Young Kerogen: Protein-Based Melanoidin Hypothesis and Heating Experiments Under Mild Conditions

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Kerogen has been attracting interest of many geochemists and geologists and intensively investigated for over 40 years, because kerogen is regarded as important precursor of petroleum and as a carrier of information of evolution of life and of biological environment throughout the earth’s history (e.g. Blumer, 1973; Hunt, 1996; Tissot and Weite, 1984). Kerogen classifications and its thermal alterations leading to liquid and gaseous products have been extensively investigated by a number of authors (e.g. Tissot and Weite, 1984; Hunt, 1996). These investigations enriched greatly the knowledge of chemistry and geochemistry of kerogen.

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    Ryoshi Ishiwatari

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Ishiwatari, R., Yamamoto, S. (2003). Formation of Young Kerogen: Protein-Based Melanoidin Hypothesis and Heating Experiments Under Mild Conditions. In: Ikan, R. (eds) Natural and Laboratory-Simulated Thermal Geochemical Processes. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0111-2_6

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