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SAPROPELIQUE [5 records]

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Record 1 2012-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Solid Fossil Fuels
CONT

This mineralization occurs in lowermost Cambrian black shales and is consistently associated with the widespread distribution of sapropelic organic-rich rocks ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Combustibles fossiles solides
CONT

On trouve des roches siliceuses, argileuses et calcareuses chargées de matière organique du type du sapropèle et l'on en fait les «roches sapropéliennes» ou «sapropélites».

CONT

Située dans des shales noirs du Cambrien basal, cette minéralisation est uniformément associée à des roches sapropéliques riches en matière organique [...]

OBS

calcaire sapropélien : Roche du Carbonifère présentant une teinte noirâtre et un aspect mat [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2007-09-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geochemistry
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
DEF

A mud rich in organic matter formed at the bottom of a body of water.

OBS

In its chemical composition, [sapropel] contains more hydrocarbon than peat.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géochimie
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
DEF

Vase organique pauvre en oxygène et riche en oxygène sulfuré, qui est à l'origine du pétrole.

CONT

[...] les boues calcaires, argileuses ou siliceuses peuvent être chargées de matières organiques pour donner des «boues sapropéliennes»; [...]

Key term(s)
  • vase sapropélienne
  • vase sapropélique
  • boue sapropélitique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geoquímica
  • Hidrología e hidrografía
DEF

Lodo muy oscuro, con gran contenido de materia orgánica en descomposición.

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Record 3 2005-03-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geochemistry
  • Petrography
DEF

[A] limestone ... characterized by [its] content of organic matter, either of vegetal or animal origin, in incipient stages of decomposition.

OBS

These limestones have a dull fracture and are black in reflected light ... Most of the sapropelic limestones have the peculiarity of displaying a gray to whitish weathering surface ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géochimie
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Roche du Carbonifère présentant une teinte noirâtre et un aspect mat [...]

CONT

Les calcaires sapropéliens ont une cassure noire qui témoigne de la présence de matière organique. Ils sont blancs en surface par altération.

OBS

calcaire sapropélique : par analogie avec roche sapropélique.

Spanish

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Record 4 2005-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mining of Organic Materials
  • Solid Fossil Fuels
DEF

Coal that is derived from organic residues (finely divided plant material, spores, algae) in stagnant or standing bodies of water.

CONT

The main types of sapropelic coal are cannel coal, boghead coal and torbanite. Sapropelic coals are high in volatiles, generally, dull, massive, and relatively uncommon.

OBS

Putrefaction under anaerobic conditions rather than peatification is the formative process [of sapropelic coals].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exploitation de matières organiques (Mines)
  • Combustibles fossiles solides
DEF

Charbon d'Algues, donnant à la distillation des hydrocarbures analogues aux pétroles.

OBS

cannel coal : Charbon sapropélique riche en spores [qui] brûle avec une longue flamme fumeuse [...]

Spanish

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Record 5 2000-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
  • Ecology (General)
  • Animal Biology
  • Plant Biology
DEF

Found in, characterized by, or derived from sapropel.

OBS

sapropel: An unconsolidated nitrogen-rich slime or sludge, formed of incompletely decomposed aquatic micro-organisms, especially algæ, found in anaerobic environments on the bottoms of lakes and seas.

CONT

"Sapropelic" Fauna. Dr. R. Lauterborn uses the term "sapropelische" to denote the organisms found in the muddy debris covering the bottom of stagnant fresh-water pools.

CONT

The presence of a sapropelic bottom inhibits aerobic life over the whole of the lower part of the basin.

CONT

They [sc. labyrinthodonts] are never found in humic coals, but usually in sapropelic coals, laid down in the deep anaerobic mud which formed in stagnant conditions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Biologie animale
  • Biologie végétale
DEF

Du sapropel, qui a trait au sapropel; qui vit dans le sapropel.

OBS

sapropel (ou sapropèle) : Boue noire, riche en matières organiques en décomposition [qui serait] à l'origine de la formation des pétroles.

CONT

Faune, flore sapropélique.

Spanish

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