Sapropel (a contraction of Ancient Greek words sapros and pelos, meaning putrefaction and mud (or clay), respectively) is a term used in marine geology...
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riverine detrital input prevails during wet ones, the Mediterranean marine sapropel-bearing sequences provide high-resolution climatic information. These data...
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North African climate cycles (section Sapropels)
surface waters is preserved as sapropel formations. One of the key pieces of evidence linking the formation of sapropels to enhance discharge from the...
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The main sediments that build up and create layers in blue holes are sapropel, detrital peat, and lacustrine marls. Within these layers, microfossils...
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Field, Bear, Yamburg Field. The depth from 700 m to 4 km. Produced peat, sapropel, quartz sand, limestone. Explored about 400 deposits of raw materials for...
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evidence used to support this scenario includes the disparate ages of sapropel deposition in the eastern Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea; buried back-stepping...
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Island', 0,76 ha). The lake bed is partially covered by mud and a layer of sapropel up to 5 meters high. The coastline is mostly flat, with exceptions in the...
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depth 3.6 m. The bottom of the lake is covered with thick layer of silt sapropel (a sort of ooze used as fertilizer and for other purposes). The lake is...
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productivity, short-lived algal blooms form organic rich layers known as sapropels. Scientists have reported an annual phytoplankton bloom that can be seen...
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small islands (total area of 2.3 ha). The lake bottom is covered mainly sapropel elsewhere - sludge. The sandbar is narrow, covered with gravel or sand...
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from one year to another. Natural resources include gypsum, sand, clay, sapropel deposits, phosphorite, and peat. There are oil and natural gas deposits...
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deposits of tile, brick and pottery ( refractory ) of clay and quartz sand, sapropel are numerous underground fresh water and mineral formations, and sources...
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Aleksinac and Vina-Zubetin. Serbian oil shale is of sapropel type (Aleksinac, Mionica and Petnica) and sapropel-coaly type. Although oil shale was known in Serbia...
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ages on the Kibish Formation corresponding to the ages of Mediterranean sapropels—suggest increased flow of the Nile River and, therefore, increased flow...
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Oil shale, an organic-rich sedimentary rock, belongs to the group of sapropel fuels. It does not have a definite geological definition nor a specific...
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its influx of carbon from algae, which decays and forms an ooze known as sapropel. When this ooze is cooked at desired pressure, three to six kilometers...
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includes brick clay and clay aggregate, gravel and sand-gravel mix, peat, and sapropel. List of Chairmen of Yaroslavl Oblast Duma Президент Российской Федерации...
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Paleocene (Thanetian). However, more recent studies have found the formation's sapropel to originate from a global anoxic event caused by the Paleocene-Eocene...
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from increased river discharge in Africa, leading to the formation of sapropel layers when the increased runoff led to the Mediterranean becoming more...
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Martine (1 April 1999). "The Holocene climatic optimum and pollen records of sapropel 1 in the eastern Mediterranean, 9000–6000BP". Quaternary Science Reviews...
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organic matter >5% of dry matter and with grain size 0,1–1,0 mm maximum 3%; "sapropel" – lake curative mud with organic matter >35% of dry matter and with grain...
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and foraminifera (plankton) remains in drilled marine sediment cores, sapropels, and other data that reflect historic climate; these are called proxies...
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Bormashov, near the mouth of the Barguzin river. The waters and bottom mud (sapropel) are reputed to have health properties. Until recently, the settlement...
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"Determination of organic compounds, fulvic acid, humic acid, and humin in peat and sapropel alkaline extracts". Molecules. 26 (10): 2995. doi:10.3390/molecules26102995...
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minerals derived from dissolved minerals and organic materials similar to sapropel sediments in the Black Sea. In addition to being a prolific deep water...
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aseismic ocean ridge in the southern Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil Sapropel – Dark-coloured sediments that are rich in organic matter Terrigenous sediment...
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signatures to infer ecological and environmental changes during deposition of sapropel S1 in the eastern Mediterranean" (PDF). Paleoceanography. 26 (2): n/a....
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Telalginite is a structured organic matter (alginite) in sapropel, composed of large discretely occurring colonial or thick-walled unicellular algae such...
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containing significant amounts of kerogen, and belonging to the group of sapropel fuels. Oil shale formation takes place in a number of depositional settings...
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substrate for N. peltata consists of clay or clay covered with a thin layer of sapropel. N. peltata occurs in temperate environments and has even been found eastern...
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