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By allowing oxygen to enter the peat column within a mire, drainage disrupts the balance between peat accumulation and decomposition, and the subsequent oxidative degradation results in the release of carbon into the atmosphere. [54] As such, drainage of mires for agriculture transforms them from net carbon sinks to net carbon emitters. [1]
Moanatuatua scientific reserve is a 140 ha remnant of restiad (Restionaceae) peatland in the North Island of New Zealand.The bog was formerly ~ 7500 ha in size and was one of several large peatlands surrounding the city of Hamilton.
The Flow Country (Scottish Gaelic: Dùthaich nam Boglaichean) [1] is a vast area of bog peatland in Caithness and Sutherland, northern Scotland.It is the largest blanket bog in Europe, and covers about 4,000 km 2 (1,500 sq mi).
Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs.
Behind the beach, deep peat and clay deposits alternating with alluvial sediments evidence the lagoon. It was deepest at the Terracina end diminishing to the surface at Cisterna, where beds of travertine, sand fused by volcanic activity, reach the surface. At this time, Latium Vetus had been formed as a volcanic land mass, while Latium Novum ...
Belait Swamp Forest is a 25,000 ha tract of forested land in the Belait District of Brunei in north-western Borneo. It has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA). It contains peat swamp, mixed dipterocarp, and tropical heath forest. [1]
A "large moonshine still", with a capacity of 25 gallons, was confiscated in the Bridgeport Tract of Bradford Island in 1922. [66] In June 1929, a fire burned large swaths of land on the island, when a high voltage power line operated by Pacific Gas & Electric over the island fell and ignited peat (in addition to damaging a pumping plant). [67]
The Sweet Track is an ancient trackway, or causeway, in the Somerset Levels, England, named after its finder, Ray Sweet.It was built in 3807 BC (determined using dendrochronology - Tree-ring dating) and is the second-oldest timber trackway discovered in the British Isles, dating to the Neolithic.