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USGS Spectral Library Version 7 Sample Description

Kokaly, R.F., Clark, R.N., Swayze, G.A., Livo, K.E., Hoefen, T.M., Pearson, N.C., Wise, R.A., Benzel, W.M., Lowers, H.A., Driscoll, R.L., and Klein, A.J., 2017, USGS Spectral Library Version 7: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1035, 61 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ds1035
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TITLE: Kerogen BK-Cornell DESCRIPT

DOCUMENTATION_FORMAT: Man_Made

SAMPLE_ID: BK-

MATERIAL_TYPE: Organic

MATERIAL: Kerogen

FORMULA: Unknown

FORMULA_HTML: Unknown

COLLECTION_LOCALITY: Unknown

ORIGINAL_DONOR: Unknown

CURRENT_SAMPLE_LOCATION: USGS Denver Spectroscopy Laboratory

ULTIMATE_SAMPLE_LOCATION: USGS Denver Spectroscopy Laboratory

SAMPLE_DESCRIPTION:

Insoluble coal-tar residue.

Cruikshank, Dale P., Dark Matter in the Solar System, paper presented at COSPAR, July, 1986.

Cruikshank, Dale P., Clark, Roger N., Salisbury, Jack, & others, in prep.

C.N. Matthews, R. Ludicky, J. Schaefer, E.O. Stejskal, and R.A. McKay, Heteropolypeptides from hydrogen cyanide and water? Solid state 15/N NMR Investigations, Origins of Life 14, 243 (1984).

IMAGE_OF_SAMPLE:
NO PHOTO

END_SAMPLE_DESCRIPTION.

XRD_ANALYSIS:

Not Available

END_XRD_ANALYSIS.

COMPOSITIONAL_ANALYSIS_TYPE: None # XRF, EPMA, ICP(Trace), WChem
COMPOSITION_TRACE:

None

COMPOSITION_DISCUSSION:

None

END_COMPOSITION_DISCUSSION.

MICROSCOPIC_EXAMINATION:

Not done yet

END_MICROSCOPIC_EXAMINATION.

SPECTROSCOPIC_DISCUSSION:

END_SPECTROSCOPIC_DISCUSSION.

SPECTRAL_PURITY: 1a2_3_4_ # 1= 0.2-3, 2= 1.5-6, 3= 6-25, 4= 20-150 microns