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Sapropel

  • Calvert S
Springer Netherlands, (2007), 966-970
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-3609-5_177
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Abstract

Sapropel is an organic-rich sediment or sedimentary rock that may be finely laminated; it lacks, or has a depauperate, benthic fauna and high concentrations of redox-sensitive trace metals. Holocene and Pleistocene examples of this facies evidently formed by high organic matter supply and/or preferential preservation of deposited organic matter under anoxic/dysoxic bottom water or sediment conditions in partially restricted environments.

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Calvert, S. E. (2007). Sapropel. In Sedimentology (pp. 966–970). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3609-5_177

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