ABSTRACT
The organics in the black trona water of southwestern Wyoming are studied in their geochemical biomarker nature pertaining to aromatic hydrocarbons, alkanes and acyclic isoprenoids, pentacyclic triterpenoids, steranes and tri- and tetracyclic terpanes. Results obtained in the aspects of source materials, maturation, biodegradation, and migration or conditions in the paleoenvironments are helpful in reconstructing a plausible hypothesis of the origin and fate of the massive organics and their diversities of the black trona water known today.
