近年来对海洋沉积物中氨基酸组分的研究,在国外已引起相当重视。早在五十年代Orr和Emery就指出:海洋沉积物中有机质的性质、来源和转化的知识,可能对沉积物的沉积环境、石油形成、海洋中营养循环和海洋有机物的化学作用提供有价值的资料。Stevenson和Cheng在研究阿根廷盆地沉积物三个芯样的有机地球化学时指出:随沉积物埋藏深度而波 In recent years, the study of amino acid composition in marine sediments has attracted considerable attention in foreign countries. As early as the 1950s, Orr and Emery pointed out that the knowledge of the nature, origin and conversion of organic matter in marine sediments may provide valuable information on sediment depositional environments, petroleum formation, nutrient circulation in the oceans, and the chemistry of marine organisms data. Stevenson and Cheng, in their study of the organic geochemistry of the three cores in the sediments of the Argentine basin, pointed out that with the depth of the burial depth of the sediments