Abstract:

The chemical and physical properties of kerogen in surface sediments from Bransfield strait were studied by using elementary analyzer,infra red spectroscopy,electron microscopy and pyrolytic analyzer.The results indicate that the relation between aromaticity and atomic retio of C/H are linearly dependent.There are large amount of benzene homologue compounds as toluene,ethyl benzene,o xylene and p xylene.The production ability of hydrocarbon are poor.The average content of the total hydrocarbon (S 1+S 2) are 0.89×10 -3 .