Description:
In this thesis, Raman spectroscopy was applied to a broad range of rock types in order to test the ability of detecting and interpreting organic signals. In the field of geobiology Raman spectroscopy is relatively new, and has the great advantage of almost destruction free analyzing of organic and inorganic phases. However, this is complicated by the fact that in many samples vibrations of disordered carbon are the only detectable signals. The interpretation of these signals is not straight forward as the similarity between kerogenous and graphitic material is very high and also thermal mat...