1984 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Chemical Transformations of Lipids During Sedimentogenesis
verfasst von : Dr. Evgenii A. Romankevich
Erschienen in: Geochemistry of Organic Matter in the Ocean
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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Lipids constitute a group of hydrophobic organic compounds easily soluble in organic solvents. A characteristic feature of the chemical composition of lipids is the presence of higher alkyl radicals in the molecules. The sources of lipids in the seas and oceans are the auto- and heterotrophic organisms inhabiting the marine environment. The community of living organisms produces annually in the world oceans 7 × 109 tons of fatty substances (Bogorov 1971). A certain portion of these lipids reaches the aquatic environment with allochthonous OM; this comprises natural lipid compounds and the constituents of oil (Goldberg 1975, Cowell 1976, Nesterova and Simonov 1979, Nemirovskaya and Nesterova 1982).