...disproportionally great as compared to that of the hydrogen. The liquid putrefaction products of the algse must almost certainly have entered into the groundmass...paleobotanists and later virtually corroborated by Potonie,0 of these gelatinous (' ' sapropelic " of Potonie) elements with a highly bituminous quality...

...concentration being the result of loss of oxygen, which is in larger proportion at the outset. That is, " the progressive deoxygenation of the organic matter...body of the organic material which is undergoing the process of coal formation; it accomplishes bituminization." However, " the important point is the connection...

...animal organisms, as well as from the putrefaction products of great quantities of the gelatinous algae themselves. The relatively increasing importance of...Potoni6,° of these gelatinous (" sapropelic " of Potoni6) elements with a highly bituminous quality of the fuel. « Jahrb. K. prouss. I.andosanstalt...