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Petroleum source rock identification of United Kingdom Atlantic Margin oil fields and the Western Canadian Oil Sands using Platinum, Palladium, Osmium and Rhenium: Implications for global petroleum systems (2012)
Journal Article
Finlay, A., Selby, D., & Osborne, M. (2012). Petroleum source rock identification of United Kingdom Atlantic Margin oil fields and the Western Canadian Oil Sands using Platinum, Palladium, Osmium and Rhenium: Implications for global petroleum systems. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 313-314, 95-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2011.11.003

This study demonstrates that petroleum and source rocks are enriched in Pt and Pd to the ppb level, and that the 187Os/188Os composition coupled with the Pt/Pd value permits the fingerprinting of petroleum to its source. Oils from the United Kingdom... Read More about Petroleum source rock identification of United Kingdom Atlantic Margin oil fields and the Western Canadian Oil Sands using Platinum, Palladium, Osmium and Rhenium: Implications for global petroleum systems.

Tracking the Hirnantian glaciation using Os isotopes (2010)
Journal Article
Finlay, A., Selby, D., & Gröcke, D. (2010). Tracking the Hirnantian glaciation using Os isotopes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 293(3-4), 339-348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2010.02.049

Here we present initial 187Os/188Os (Osi) values integrated with δ13Corg for the first Paleozoic section — the Ordovician/Silurian boundary GSSP at Dob's Linn, Scotland. Our 187Os/188Os data tracks major changes in climate that occurred during the La... Read More about Tracking the Hirnantian glaciation using Os isotopes.