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What is a sapropel?

What is a sapropel? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) An aquatic sludge-like sediment rich in organic matter formed in oxygen-free areas at the bottom of lakes, seas etc.
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Magnetic properties and geochemistry of the active oxidation front and the youngest sapropel in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Oligotrophy and nitrogen fixation during Eastern Mediterranean sapropel events.
The main substrate type of the former is clay with detritus and sand, of the latter mostly detritus and sapropel.
Sapropel sediments can also be used in the production of hydro, thermal, electric, and noise insulation plates, in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industry, and balneology.
The project for the extraction and application of sapropel fertilizers was developed by researchers at the Institute of Oceanology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Carbon-Mineral Sapropel Sorbent for Comprehensive Waste Water Purification.

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