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The study presents examples of the application of oxyreactive thermal analysis to the geological prospecting of bitumen deposits. Thermal analysis performed under properly chosen analytical conditions allows determination of characteristic features of organic matter and, at the same time, estimation of the thermal history of rocks. Thermal oxyreactivity curves document whether rocks were heated before or not. The results of the oxyreactive thermal analysis correlate well with the results of routine chemical analyses of organic matter (e.g. the composition of kerogen and bituminous fraction, Rock-Eval analysis and others). Our study clearly demonstrates that the composition of organic matter in facially, lithostratigraphically, and biogenetically identical rocks depends on their thermal history.
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Dedicated to Dr. Robert Mackenzie on the occasion of his 75th birthday
We would like to thank the Polish Committee for Scientific Research (KBN) for enabling our investigations. Our study was supported by two KBN grants: 9.0650.91.01. and 9.S 602.005.04.
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Cebulak, S., Karczewska, A., Mazurek, A. et al. Kerogen as a geochemical marker of the thermal history of rocks. Journal of Thermal Analysis 48, 163–175 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01978976
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