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sapropel

Sapropel vs Lamalginite - What's the difference?

sapropel | lamalginite |


As nouns the difference between sapropel and lamalginite

is that sapropel is (geology) an aquatic sludge-like sediment rich in organic matter formed in oxygen-free areas at the bottom of lakes, seas etc while lamalginite is an alginite found in sapropel and composed of thin-walled colonial or unicellular algae that occur as distinct laminae, cryptically interbedded with mineral matter.