General References on Organic Petrology and Geochemistry

Selected References - revised January, 2012

NOTE: The volumes by Bostick and Nicksic 1975, Taylor et al. 1998, and many of the others contain extensive bibliographies which may be useful to those seeking additional references.

   These bibliographic references have been compiled as a TSOP project, and organic petrologists have found the references to be useful in their work. They should be available at university or geological research center libraries. They are not available from TSOP, except for those listed on our Publications page, or as part of the TSOP Newsletter.

Alpern, B., and M.J. Lemos de Sousa, 2002, Documented international enquiry on solid sedimentary fossil fuels; coal: definitions, classifications, reserves-resources, and energy potential: International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 50, p. 3-41.

Bostick, N.H., and C.P. Nicksic, 1975, Bibliography and index of coal and dispersed organic matter in sedimentary rocks: petrography, catagenesis, relation to petroleum and natural gas, and geochemistry: Illinois State Geological Survey Illinois Petroleum 108, 92 p.

Bustin, R.M., A.R. Cameron, D.A. Grieve, and W.D. Kalkreuth, 1985, Coal petrology, its principles, methods, and applications: Geological Association of Canada, Short Course Notes, v. 3, Second revised edition, 230 p.

Diessel, C.F.K., 1992, Coal-bearing depositional systems: Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 721 p.

Engel, M.H., and S. Macko, 1993, Organic geochemistry; principles and applications: New York, Plenum Press, 861 p.

Hunt, J.M., 1996, Petroleum geochemistry and geology, 2nd ed.: New York, W.H. Freeman and Company, 743 p.

Killops, S.D., and V.J. Killops, 1993, An introduction to organic geochemistry: Longman Scientific and Technical, 265 p.

Papp, A.R., J.C. Hower, and D.C. Peters, 1998, Atlas of coal geology: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology 45, CD-ROM.

Peters, K.E., and J.M. Moldowan, 1993, The biomarker guide: interpreting molecular fossils in petroleum and ancient sediments: Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 360 p.

Peters, K.E., C.C. Walters, and J.M. Moldowan, 2005, The biomarker guide, second edition: New York, Cambridge University Press, two volumes, 1,155 p.

Potter, J., L.D. Stasiuk, and A.R. Cameron, 1998, A petrographic atlas of Canadian coal macerals and dispersed organic matter: Canadian Society for Coal Science and Organic Petrology, 105 p.

Robert, P., 1988, Organic metamorphism and geothermal history: Boston, Elf-Aquitaine and D. Reidel Publishing Company, 311 p.

Scott, A.C., ed., 1987, Coal and coal-bearing strata: recent advances: Boston, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Geological Society Special Publication 32, 332 p.

Stach, E., M.-Th. Mackowsky, M. Teichmuller, G.H. Taylor, D. Chandra, and R. Teichmuller, 1982, Stach’s textbook of coal petrology, 3rd edn: Berlin & Stuttgart, Gebruder Borntraeger, 535 p.

Suárez-Ruiz, I., and J.C. Crelling, eds., 2008, Applied coal petrology: the role of petrology in coal utilization: New York, Academic Press, 388 p.

Taylor, G.H., M. Teichmuller, A. Davis, C.F.K. Diessel, R. Littke, and P. Robert, 1998, Organic petrology: Berlin & Stuttgart, Gebruder Borntraeger, 704 p.

Thomas, L., 1992, Handbook of practical coal geology: Chichester, John Wiley & Sons, 338 p.

Thomas, L., 2002, Coal geology: San Francisco, CA, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 384 p.

Tissot, B., and D.H. Welte, 1984, Petroleum formation and occurrence, 2nd ed.: New York, Springer-Verlag, 699 p.

Tyson, R.V., 1995, Sedimentary organic matter; organic facies and palynofacies: New York, Chapman & Hall, 615 p.

Ward, C.R., ed., 1984, Coal geology and coal technology: Boston, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 345 p.

Yang, Y., R. Zou, Z. Shi, and R. Jiang, eds., 1996, Atlas for coal petrography of China: Beijing, China University of Mining and Technology Press, 323 p.