《Assessing Possibilities and Limitations for Biomarker Analyses on Outcrop Samples A Case Study on Carbonates of the Shibantan Member Ediacaran Period Dengying Formation South China》.pdfVIP

V01．88No．6 ACTAGEOLOGICA Dec．2014 PP．1696-1704 Edition) SINICA(English PossibilitiesandLimitationsforBiomarkeron Assessing Analyses Case on oftheShibantan Carbonates OutcropSamples：AStudy Formation，South Member(EdiacaranPeriod，Dengying China) Jan—Peter REITNERlandMartinBLUMENBERGl，2 DUDAl，，VolkerTHIELl，Joachim 1 Geoscience Centre,Geobiology Group,Georg-August-University G6ttingen，Germany 2Federal GeosciencesandNatural 2。30655 Institutefor Resources(BGR)．StillewegHannove—Germany Abstract：TheShibantan oneof two Member(DengyingFormation，SouthChina)representsonly carbonate with andoffersarare to the settingsEdiacara-typeorganisms opportunitystudy ofthese evaluate andlimitationsforfuturebiomarker biogeochemistryecosystems．Topossibilities studieson oftheShibantan the fossil．bearingoutcropsamples Member，weanalysedspatial a scale．0nr distributionof inextractable millimetre hydrocarbons organicmatter佤e．bitumen)on thesame are demonstratesthatthe andmost alsootherrocksfrom study sample likely setting contaminatedwith thatbe