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Stoneshifter Feb 5, 2009 08:12:27
Replying to Pilgrim

I get out a lot - like for most of the summer - and am still interested in peat. It's not laid down equally. It's just decomposed sphagnum moss so wherever that's growing, in the wet, is where the peat will grow. Some places it's deep - like really deep - and some places it's soil - and there is no peat. It's a hopeless case really and, if we'd wanted to stabilise atmospheric CO2, should have started in about 1930!

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Pilgrim Feb 5, 2009 14:35:16
Replying to Stoneshifter

Stoneshifter wrote:
I get out a lot - like for most of the summer - and am still interested in peat. It's not laid down equally. It's just decomposed sphagnum moss so wherever that's growing, in the wet, is where the peat will grow. Some places it's deep - like really deep - and some places it's soil - and there is no peat. It's a hopeless case really and, if we'd wanted to stabilise atmospheric CO2, should have started in about 1930!
Hi Stoneshifter,

Interesting stuff.... what's the acidity of the soil like up there? Dartmoor's pretty harsh apparently (as a consequence of a number of factors - not just the sphagnum) . It all has a bearing on how fast sphagnum becomes peat, I guess...

Here's an interesting site:

http://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/peat_moor.htm

....he takes the depths I've quoted (as I've seen them somewhere before) with a pinch of salt... making saltpeater! Boom! Boom!

Peace

Pilgrim

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