The nature and fate of natural resins in the geosphere VI. Analysis of fossil resins from Axel Heiberg Island Canadian Arctic

• Main Authors: Anderson, K.B. |, LePage, B.A.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: 40 CHEMISTRY ;55 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE; BASIC STUDIES; AMBER; STRUCTURAL CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTRA; SUCCINIC ACID; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; ORIGIN; Arctic; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Heiberg; Axel Heiberg Island; Arctic Archipelago
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/67765; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/67765

Ambers are well known and abundant in terrestrial sediments all over the world; however, due largely to the absence of definite morphological characteristics, the precise botanical origin of most amber samples, are at best, often a matter of speculation. This has severely restricted the usefulness o...