Simple Lithology
organic rich sediment
http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/cgi/lithology/organic_rich_sediment
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definition | Sediment with color, composition, texture and apparent density indicating greater than 50 percent organic content by weight on a moisture-free basis. |  |
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note | The broader relation from organic rich sediment to biogenic sediment is based on the inference that organic rich material is always biogenic in origin. Biogenic is a broader category because not all biogenic materials are organic rich, for example shells or phosphatic bone. | |
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source | SLTTs 2004 | |
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in scheme | simplelithology | |||||||||
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is primary topic of | organic rich sediment& properties=type | |||||||||