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The colour changes that spores exhibit, with increasing depth of burial, are used as a thermal maturity indicator for evaluating hydrocarbon source rocks. Spore colour is determined visually leading to an intrinsic difficulty of unequivocally assessing and recording their colour. Quantitative scales using photometers are available, but are not widely applied. Colour Image Analysis (CIA) is presented...