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Ken Anderson
Chemistry Division
Appointment: 1989 - 1991
Supervisor: Randall Winans
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General Information
- Prof. Ken B. Anderson
- Department of Geology
- Southern Illinois University Carbondale
- Carbondale , IL , 62901
- Cell: 618 201 3573
- Fax: 618 453 7393
- Email: kanderson@geo.siu.edu
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ANL Research Highlights
Development of general classification system for fossil resins and ambers that is now universally adopted (The Nature and Fate of Natural Resins in the Geosphere. II. Identification, Classification and Nomenclature of Resinites. K. B. Anderson, R. E. Winans, and R. E. Botto, (1992), Org. Geochem., 18(6), 829-841)
New Endeavors
I am now a professor of Geology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale; I continue to specialize in organic geochemistry with a particular focus on coals and fossil resins. My work on coal is focused on development of environmentally benign strategies for the utilization of coal as an abundant and readily available source of energy and raw materials both in the U.S. and the developing world. My efforts related to fossil resins are focused on investigations of the evolution of higher plants and on the use of fossil resins as chemotaxonomic markers.
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