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STEPHEN R. JACOBSON
Chevron Oil Field Research Company
La Habra, California 90633-0446
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between samples 109 and 110, Askin 1988b). The aim was to
evaluate preserved organic matter for quantity, quality, thermal maturity, and environment of deposition, to recognize
changes in environmental conditions, if any, across the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary.
These samples contain consistently low amounts of total
organic carbon with similar poor quality (virtually no hydrocarbon generative potential) and are thermally immature (table, figure 1). No significant variations in analytic data were
found across the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary.
Outcrop samples were collected by F.C. Barbis and J.R. Robinson in December 1983, mostly at 0.5-meter intervals, from
about 10-30 centimeters beneath the surface. Outcrop samples
are subject to weathering which may have affected the TOC
and pyrolysis results. The sediments are unconsolidated, mainly
sandy silts and silty sands, with some glauconitic and more
clayey beds (figure 1). All samples are rich in fossil pal y nomorphs (Askin 1988a, 1988b). Samples were analyzed by Exlog/
Brown & Ruth Laboratories, Inc., Denver, Colorado.
TOC. TOG content of a sample includes the total sedimentary organic matter and is affected by the clastic sedimentation
rate and the extent of degradation. Degradation includes oxidation in the depositional basin, diagenesis, and thermal alteration of organic matter due to burial depth or igneous activity,
as well as subsequent weathering at the outcrop.
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LITHOLOGIC KEY
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meter. T.O.C. denotes total organic carbon.)
1988 REVIEW
Results of Total Organic Carbon (TOC) analysis and Rock Eval pyrolysis
Sample
TOCa
number
Bi -126
B1-125
Bi -124
Bi -123
Bi -122
B1-121
Bi -120
B1-119
B1-118
B1-117
B1-116
131-115
B1-114
B1-113
B1-112
Bi-ill
Bi-ilO
Bi -109
B1-108
B1-106
Bi -105
Bi -104
Bi -103
Bi -102
Bi-101
Bi -100
B 1-99
B1-98
B1-97
B1-96
B 1-95
B1-94
B 1-93
B 1-92
B1-91
B1-89
B1-88
B1-87
B1-87B
B1-86
0.44
0.33
0.34
0.28
0.28
0.28
0.33
0.34
0.15
0.28
0.37
0.27
0.43
0.33
0.43
0.37
0.45
0.27
0.54
0.40
0.40
0.37
0.35
0.48
0.39
0.39
0.35
0.46
0.39
0.46
0.47
0.50
0.50
0.50
0.44
0.50
0.45
0.41
0.60
0.34
Slb
<0.10
<0.10
<0.10
<0.10
<0.10
<0.10
<0.10
5c
<0.10
<0.10
<0.10
0.21
0.21
0.19
0.26
S3
0.66
0.72
0.62
0.79
0.71
Tmaxe
Hydrogen
Oxygen
Index
Index
153
167
144
175
0.46
0.54
<0.10
0.19
0.44
<0.10
0.26
0.47
<0.10
0.22
0.53
<0.10
<0.10
0.46
<0.10
0.20
0.53
<0.10
<0.10
0.43
<0.10
<0.10
0.52
<0.10
0.20
0.53
<0.10
0,22
0.51
<0.10
0.23
0.78
131
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57
42
55
44
39
46
54
38
97
117
96
101
106
93
105
97
104
117
124
131
1988 REVIEW
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