If the necessary conditions are not available, the peat bog will not develop. Peat bogs are valuable stores of sequestered carbon, locking up carbon dioxide and preventing it from being released back into the atmosphere, where it would contribute to global warming. Currently peat bogs are being ...
A peat bog in the wilderness of the Scottish Highlands is an unusual place to put a pounds 60,000 luxury car to the test. But as generations of motorists have discovered, when the car is a Range Rover normal limits do not apply. For almost 32 years this socialite steed from Solihull...
Drying a peat bog for production normally takes from 2 to 6 years depending to some extent, on the quality of the peat. Besides drainage, treeclearing, road building, stump-extraction and levelling of the bog surface must be carried out before the area is ready for production. This will ...
Page SE, Wűst R, Weiss D, Rieley JO, Shotyk W, Limin SH (2004) A record of Late Pleistocene and Holocene carbon accumulation and climate change from an equatorial peat bog (Kalimantan, Indonesia): implications for past, present and future carbon dynamics. J Quat Sci 19(7):625–635 ...
The initial state of the peat bog was taken to be either a bog in its natural sale, a forest-drained bog or a cultivated peatland. As regards alternatives for subsequent use of the peat production area, afforestation, paludification and lake formation were all examinedHillebrand, K...
The main indicator of bog stability is the average long-term ground water level, and for permafrost peatlands, the thickness of the active layer is also equal to the averaged long-term depth of seasonal thawing of peat deposits [44]. Since the water levels in the bogs are close to the ...