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The fatty acids continue to be one of the most rewarding types of organic compounds studied by geochemists. Almost without exception every research group concerned with fatty acid geochemistry has produced qualitatively new data and relationships. Several factors make fatty acids favorable organic molecules for geochemical study; they are major components of most organisms, many of them have the intrinsic chemical stability to persist for geologically long periods of time, and sufficient chemically-different types of carboxylic acid occur naturally to carry useful information about their origin and transformations.
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Parker, P.L. (1969). Fatty Acids and Alcohols. In: Eglinton, G., Murphy, M.T.J. (eds) Organic Geochemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87734-6_16
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