text: With credit to the previously listed techniques, biomarkers were found in petroleum and source rock extract. These are fossils from organisms, but are closer in size to molecules than to visible hand samples. They display the same structure as their parent biomolecules and are used in the identification of the organic matter from which the petroleum is derived. Biomarkers are also used in correlating oils and source rocks, finding the oil's maturity, regional differences found between multiple samples, and the history of the basin in which the source rock was located.