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sapropelic, a. Geol. and Zool.|sæprəʊˈpɛlɪk|
[ad. G. sapropelisch (R. Lauterborn 1901, in Zool. Anzeiger XXIV. 50), f. Gr. σαπρός putrid + πηλός mud, earth, clay: see -ic.]
Found in, characterized by, or derived from sapropel.
1901Jrnl. R. Microsc. Soc. 144 ‘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. 1918[see humic a.]. 1963D. W. & E. E. Humphries tr. Termier's Erosion & Sedimentation xi. 239 The presence of a sapropelic bottom inhibits aerobic life over the whole of the lower part of the basin. 1966[see humic a.]. 1971Nature 31 Dec. 508/1 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. |