Oxyreactive Thermal Analysis of Dispersed Organic Matter, Kerogen and Carbonization Products A Tool for Investigation of the Heated Rock Masses

This paper presents the results of oxyreactive thermal analyses of organic matter in rocks, heated naturally during diagenetic to metamorphic processes. During the experiments we traced the reactions in the temperature range up to 900°C, it means from the very beginning of diagenetic transformations to the highest real temperatures acting in the Earth's crust as a solid phase. The results showed that TA could be a tool for the reconstruction of thermal regime in natural coal-bearing systems. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.