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  2. Peat - Wikipedia

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    Peat in Lewis, Scotland. Peat forms when plant material does not fully decay in acidic and anaerobic conditions. It is composed mainly of wetland vegetation: principally bog plants including mosses, sedges and shrubs.

  3. Peatland - Wikipedia

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    Total northern peat carbon stocks are estimated to be 1055 Gt of carbon. [43] Of all northern circumpolar countries, Russia has the largest area of peatlands, [42] and contains the largest peatland in the world, The Great Vasyugan Mire. [44] Nakaikemi Wetland in southwest Honshu, Japan is more than 50,000 years old and has a depth of 45 m. [2]

  4. Thorne and Hatfield Moors - Wikipedia

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    Thorne and Hatfield Moors Re-flooded peat workings on Thorne Moors form part of the Humberhead Peatlands National Nature Reserve The Moors within South Yorkshire Location North-east and east of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England OS grid SE723151 Coordinates 53°38′N 0°55′W  /  53.63°N 0.91°W  / 53.63; -0.91 Area 8,201 acres (33.19 km 2) Thorne and Hatfield Moors form the ...

  5. Fen - Wikipedia

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    A fen is a type of peat-accumulating wetland fed by mineral-rich ground or surface water. [1] [2] It is one of the main types of wetland along with marshes, swamps, and bogs. Bogs and fens, both peat-forming ecosystems, are also known as mires. [2] The unique water chemistry of fens is a result of the ground or surface water input.

  6. Moorland - Wikipedia

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    Moorland, nowadays, generally means uncultivated hill land (such as Dartmoor in South West England), but also includes low-lying wetlands (such as Sedgemoor, also South West England). It is closely related to heath, although experts disagree on what precisely distinguishes these types of vegetation.

  7. Peat produces profit for businesses flooding Scotland’s wetlands

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    As BrewDog co-founder Martin Dickie trudged through his newly-acquired 9,000 acres of muted amber and jade moss, the Aberdeenshire native explained what makes Scotland’s peat special -- and why ...

  8. List of bogs - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of bogs, wetland mires that accumulate peat from dead plant material, usually sphagnum moss. [1] Bogs are sometimes called quagmires (technically all bogs are quagmires while not all quagmires are necessarily bogs) and the soil which composes them is sometimes referred to as muskeg ; alkaline mires are called fens rather than bogs.

  9. Bog - Wikipedia

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    Once the peat has been extracted it can be difficult to restore the wetland, since peat accumulation is a slow process. [4] [32] [33] More than 90% of the bogs in England have been damaged or destroyed. [34] [35] In 2011 plans for the elimination of peat in gardening products were announced by the UK government. [4]

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