Ken B. Anderson
Professor

B.Sc. 1984, University of Melbourne
Ph.D. 1989, University of Melbourne

Office: 310 Parkinson Lab
Phone: 618-453-7389
E-mail: kanderson@geo.siu.edu


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Research Interests:

Organic Geochemistry. Structural characterization and reactivity of coal. Novel coal utilization strategies. Investigation and characterization of ambers and related products derived from polyterpenoid resins. Application of geochemical techniques to the
characterization of Archeological matter.

Selected Recent Publicatons:

Bray, P.S., and Anderson, K.B., 2009, Identification of Carboniferous (320 Million Years Old) Class Ic amber, Science, 326, 132-134.

Bray, P.S., and Anderson, K.B., 2008, The nature and fate of natural resins in the Geosphere XIII: A probable Pinaceous resin from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian), Isle of Wight, Geochemical Transactions, 9:3.

Lambert, J.B., Santiago-Blay, J., and Anderson, K.B., 2008, Chemical Signatures of Fossilized Resins and Recent Plant Exudates. Angewandte Chemie.

Anderson, K.B., Crelling, J.C., Kenig, F. and Huggett, W.W., 2007, An unusual low-fluorescence algal kerogen from the Canadian Arctic, International Journal of Coal Geology, 69, 144–152.

Kaelin, P.E., Huggett, W.W., and Anderson, K.B., 2006, Comparison of vitrified and unvitrified Eocene woody tissues by TMAH thermochemolysis – Implications for the early stages of the formation of vitrinite, Geochemical Transactions, 7:9.

Anderson, K.B., and Bray, W., 2006, The Amber of El Dorado. Class Ib archaeological ambers associated with Laguna Guatavita, Archaeometry, 48(4), 633–640.

Anderson, K.B., Tranter, R.S., Tang, W., Brezinsky, K., and Harding, L.B., 2004, Speciation of C6H6 isomers by GC-Matrix Isolation FTIR-MS. Journal Physical Chemistry A, 108(16), 3403 – 3405.

Anderson, K.B., 2003, Resins and amber in sediments, In: Encyclopedia of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, G.V. Middleton (Ed.). Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Kenig, F., Simons, D-J. H., Crich, D., Cowen, J.P., Ventura, G.T., Rehbein-Khalily, T., Brown, T.C., and Anderson, K.B., 2003, Branched aliphatic alkanes with quaternary substituted carbon atoms in modern and ancient geologic samples. Proceedings National Academy Sciences, 22, 12554-12558.

Smith, F.A., and Anderson, K.B., 2000, Characterization of organic compounds in phytoliths: Improving the resolving power of phytolith δ13C as a tool for paleoecological reconstruction of C3 and C4 grasses. In: The Phytoliths. Applications in Earth Science and Human History, Meunier J.D., Colin, F. and Faure-Denard, L. (Eds.), Gordon and Breach Publishing Group.

Clifford, D.J., Hatcher, P.G., Botto, R.E., Muntean, J.V., and Anderson, K.B., 1999, The nature and fate of natural resins in the Geosphere-IX. Structure and maturation similarities of soluble and insoluble polylabdanoids isolated from Tertiary Class I resinites, Organic Geochemistry 30(7), 635-650.

Anderson, K.B., 1994, The nature and fate of natural resins in the Geosphere. IV. Middle and Upper Cretaceous amber from the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia - Evidence for a new form of polylabdanoid resinite and revision of the classification of Class I resinites, Organic Geochemistry, 21(2), 209-212.

Anderson, K.B., and Botto, R.E., 1993, The nature and fate of natural resins in the Geosphere. III. Re-evaluation of the structure and composition of Highgate Copalite and Glessite, Organic Geochemistry 20(7), 1027-1038

Anderson, K.B., Winans, R.E., and Botto, R.E., 1992, The nature and fate of natural resins in the Geosphere. II. Identification, classification and nomenclature of resinites, Organic Geochemistry, 18(6), 829-841.

Anderson, K.B., and Winans, R.E., 1991, The nature and fate of natural resins in the Geosphere. I. Evaluation of pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry for the analysis of plant resins and resinites. Analytical Chemistry, 63, 2901-2908.

Teaching:

GEOL 221 Earth Through Time
GEOL 418 Low-Temperature Geochemistry
GEOL 421 Organic Geochemistry