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  • Glasspool I.J., Collinson M.E., Scott A.C., Brain A.T., Plotnick R.E., Kenig F. (2008) Insights into the ontogeny and affinity of early Middle Pennsylvanian age megaspores from the Illinois Basin. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynology. In press

 

  • Jaraula C.M.B. , Kenig F., Doran P.T., Priscu J.C., Welch K.A. (2008) SPME-GCMS study of the natural attenuation of aviation diesel spilled on the perennial ice cover of Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Science of the Total Environment.  In press, July 2008.

 

  • Kenig F. (2008) Distribution of organic matter in the transgressive and regressive Holocene sabkha sediments of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates).  Spec. Publs Int. Ass. of Sediment. In press

 

  • Bekker A., Beukes N.J., Holmden C., Kenig F., Eglington B., Patterson W.P. (2008) Fractionation between inorganic and organic carbon during the Lomagundi (2.22-2.1 Ga) carbon isotope excursion. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 271, 278–291.

 

  • Ventura G.T.#, Kenig F., Reddy C.M., Frysinger G.S., Nelson R.K., Van Mooy B., Gaines R.B., (2008) Analysis of unresolved complex mixtures of hydrocarbons extracted from late Archean sediments using comprehensive two dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC). Organic Geochemistry 39,  846–867

 

  • Elie N., Nogueira A.F.C, Nédélec A., Trindade R.I.F., and Kenig F. (2007) A red algal bloom in the aftermath of the Marinoan Snowball Earth.  Terra Nova 19, 5 , 303–308.

 

  • Ventura G.T.#, Kenig F., Reddy C.M., Schieber J., Frysinger G.S., Nelson R.K., Dinel E., Gaines R.B., Schaeffer P. (2007) Molecular evidence of Late Archean Archaea and the presence of a subsurface biosphere.  PNAS 104, 14260-14265.

 

  • Anderson K.B., Crelling J.C., Kenig F., Huggett W.W. (2007) An unusual non-fluorescing algal kerogen from the Canadian Arctic. International Journal of Coal Petrology 69, 144-152. .

 

  • Crich D., Xu H., Kenig F. (2006) Total synthesis and structural verification of some novel branched alkanes with quaternary carbons (BAQCs) isolated from diverse geological sources. Journal of Organic Chemistry 71, 5016-5019.

 

  • Bai Y., Fang X., Wang Y., Kenig F., and Wang Y. (2006) Branched alkanes with quaternary carbon atoms in Chinese soils: Potential environmental significance. Chinese Science Bulletin 51, 9, 1115-1122 (in English) [Chinese Science Bulletin 51, 4, 448-454 (in Chinese)].

 

  • Bai Y., Wang Y., Fang X., Kenig F., Miao Y., and Wang Y. (2006) Distribution of aliphatic ketones in Chinese soils: Potential environmental implications. Organic Geochemistry 37, 860-869.

 

  • Wagner B., Melles M., Doran P.T., Pierau R., Allan P., and Kenig F. (2006) Glacial and postglacial sedimentation in the Fryxell basin, Taylor Valley, southern Victoria land, Antarctica. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 241, 2, 320-337.

 

  • Sinninghe Damsté J. S, Baas M., Geenvasen J.A.J., Kenig F.  (2005) Structural identification of sedimentary C21 and C22 highly branched isoprenoid alkanes. Organic Geochemistry 36, 4, 511-517.  PDF

 

  • Kenig F., Simons D.-J.H., Ventura G.T. , Crich D., Cowen J.P., Rehbein-Khalily T.  (2005) Structure and distribution of branched-alkanes with quaternary carbon atoms in Cenomanian and Turonian black shales of Pasquia Hill (Saskatchewan, Canada). Organic Geochemistry36, 1, 117-138. PDF

 

  • Brown T.C. and Kenig F.  (2004) Water column structure during deposition of Devonian-Lower Mississippian black and green/gray shales of Laurentia: a biomarker approach. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 215, 59-85. PDF

 

  • Lawson J., Doran P.T., Kenig F., Des Marais D.J., Priscu J.C. (2004)  Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of benthic and pelagic organic matter in lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Aquatic Geochemistry 10, 3, 269-301. PDF
  • Kenig F., Hudson J.D., Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Popp B.N.  (2004) Intermittent anoxia: Reconciliation of a Jurassic black shale with its biofacies. Geology 32, 5, 421-424. PDF
  • Kenig F., Simons D.J.H., Crich D., Cowen J.P., Ventura G.T. , Brown, T.C. , Rehbein-Khalily T. , Anderson K.B. (2003) Branched aliphatic alkanes with quaternary substituted carbon atoms in modern and ancient geological samples. PNAS 100, 22, 12554-12558. PDF
  •  Simons D. J. H. , Kenig F. and Schröder-Adams C. (2003) Organic geochemistry of the Cenomanian- Turonian sediments from the Western Interior Seaway, Canada. Organic Geochemistry 34, 8,1177-1198. 
  • Cowen J.P., Giovannoni S.J., Kenig F., Johson H.P., Butterfield D., Rappe M.S., Hutnak M., Lam P. (2003) Fluids from aging ocean crust that support microbial life. Science 299, 120-123. PDF
  • Simons D.J.H., Kenig F. (2001) Molecular fossil constraints on water column structure of the Cenomanian-Turonian Western Interior Seaway, USA. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 169, 129-152. PDF 
  • Schroder-Adams C.J., Cumbaa S.L., Bloch J., Leckie D.A., Craig. J., Seif El-Dein S.A., Simons, DJ.H. and Kenig F.  (2001) Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Campanian) paleoenvironmental history of the Eastern Canadian margin of the Western Interior Seaway: bonebeds and anoxic events. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 170, 261-289. 
  • Rosell-Melé A., Bard, E., Emeis, K.C., Grimalt, J., Muller, P., Schneider, R., Bouloubassi, I., B. Epstein, K. Fahl, A. Fluegge, K. Freeman, M. Goñi, U. Guntner, D. Hartz, S. Hellebust, T. Herbert, M. Ikehara, R. Ishiwatari, K. Kawamura, F. Kenig, J. de Leeuw, S. Lehman, N. Ohkouchi, R. D. Pancost, F. Prahl, J. Quinn, J.-F. Rontani, F. Rostek, J. Rullkotter, J. Sachs, D. Sanders, K. Sawada, D. Schultz-Bull, E. Sikes, Y. Ternois, G. Versteegh, J. Volkman, and S. Wakeham (2001) Precision of the current methods to measure alkenone proxy UK’37 and absolute alkenone abundance in sediments: results of an inter-laboratory comparison study. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 2, 2000GC00141, p28.
  • Kenig F., Simons D.J.H., Anderson K.B. (2001) Distribution and origin of ethyl-branched alkanes in a transgressive shale of the Western Interior Seaway (USA). Organic Geochemistry 32, 7, 949-954. PDF
  • Kenig F., Popp B. N. and Summons R. E. (2000) Preparative HPLC with Ultrastable-Y-zeolite for compound-specific carbon isotope analysis. Organic Geochemistry, 31, 11, 1087-1094. 
  • Kenig F. (2000) C16-C29 homologous series of monomethylalkanes in the pyrolysis products of a Holocene microbial mat. Organic Geochemistry 31, 2-3, 237-241.  PDF
  • Popp B. N., Trull T., Kenig F., Wakeham S. G., Rust T. M., Tilbrook B., Griffiths B., Wright S., Marchant H., Bidigare R. R. and E. A. Laws (1999) Controls on the carbon isotopic composition of southern ocean phytoplankton. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 13, 4, 827-843. 
  • Popp B. N., F. Kenig, S. G. Wakeham, E. A. Laws and R.R. Bidigare (1998) Influence of growth rate on ketone unsaturation and stable carbon isotope ratios in Emiliania huxleyi. Paleoceanography 11, 1, 35-41.
  • Koopmans M. P., Koster J., van Kaam-Peters H. M. E., Kenig F., Schouten S., Hartgers W. A., de Leeuw J. W. and J. S. Sinninghe Damste (1996) Dia- and catagenetic products of isorenieratene: molecular indicators of photic zone anoxia. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 60, 22, 4467-4496. PDF
  • Sinninghe Damste J. S., Frewin N., Kenig F. and J. W. de Leeuw (1995) Molecular indicator for palaeoenvironmental change in a Messinian evaporitic sequence (Vena del Gesso, Italy): I. Cyclic variations in extractable organic matter in eleven marl beds. Org. Geochem. 23, 6, 471-483. PDF
  • Kenig F., Sinninghe Damste J. S., Frewin N.J., M. Hayes and J. W. de Leeuw (1995) Molecular indicator for palaeoenvironmental change in a Messinian evaporitic sequence (Vena del Gesso, Italy): II. Stratigraphic variations in abundancies and 13C contents of free and sulphur bound carbon skeletons in a single marl bed. Org. Geochem. 23, 6, 485-526. PDF
  • Kenig F., Sinninghe Damste J., de Leeuw J. W. and A. Y. Huc (1995) Occurrence and origin of mono-, di- and trimethylalkanes in modern and holocene microbial mats from Abu Dhabi (U.A.E.). Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 59, 14, 2999-3015. PDF
  • Sinninghe Damste J. S., Kenig F., Koopmans M. P., Koster J., Schouten S., Hayes J. M. and J. W. de Leeuw (1995) Evidence for gammacerane as an indicator of water column stratification. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 59, 9, 1895-1900. 
  • Kenig F., Sinninghe Damste J. S., Hayes J. M. and J. W. de Leeuw (1994) Molecular paleontological evidence for food-web relationships. Naturwissenschaften. 81, 128-130.
  • Belin S. and F. Kenig (1994) Depositional conditions determined from microtextures of sediments of the Oxford Clay Fm. (U.K.). Journal of the Geological Society, London 151, 153-160. 
  • Kenig F, Popp B. N., Hayes J. M. and R. Summons (1994) An isotopic biogeochemical study of the Oxford Clay formation, Jurassic, UK. Journal of the Geological Society, London 151, 139-152. 
  • Baltzer F., Kenig F., Boichard R., Plaziat J.-C. and B. H. Purser (1994) Organic matter distribution, water circulation and dolomitization beneath the Abu Dhabi sabkha (United Arab Emirates). Spec. Publs Int. Ass. of Sediment. 21, 409-427. 
  • Kenig F., Huc A.Y., Purser B. H., J. L. Oudin (1990) Sedimentation, distribution and diagenesis of organic matter, in a carbonate hypersaline environment, Abu Dhabi (U.A.E.). in "Advances in Organic Geochemistry , 1989"; Org. Geochem. 16, 735-747.
  • Kenig F. and A. Y. Huc (1989) Incorporation of sulfur into recent organic matter in a carbonate environment, Abu Dhabi (U.A.E.). in "Geochemistry of Sulfur in Fossil Fuel"; Ed W.L. ORR, C.M. WHITE; A.C.S. Symp. Sci. 429, 170-185. 

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