Sentence examples for formation of peat from inspiring English sources

The formation of peat is the first step in the formation of coal.

Inertinites are derived from strongly altered or degraded plant material that is thought to have been produced during the formation of peat; in particular, charcoal produced by a fire in a peat swamp is preserved as fusinite.

Bogland shares a number of plant and animal species with heathland but is also a habitat for species of bog cotton as well as bog asphodel, sedges (which contribute to the formation of peat) and bog moss.

As the peat mass rises over its surroundings, the continual precipitation surplus (a precondition for the formation of ombrogenous peat) drains away to the fringes of the bog where it creates a wet peripheral zone.

The formation of abundant peat was not possible before land plants developed and spread widely during and after the Devonian Period (beginning approximately 360 million years ago).

The tailings from the mines, for example, will replace flat terrain that led to the formation of the peat lands with rolling, manmade hills.

Peat can be formed in bogs, marshes, or freshwater swamps, and in fact huge freshwater swamps of the geologic past provided favourable conditions for the formation of thick peat deposits that over time became coal deposits.

Poor drainage has led to the formation of extensive peat bogs, while broad tidal flats lie along the margin of Hudson Bay.

Chimner and Ewel [ 2005] suggested that relatively slow root decomposition may be instrumental in the formation of tropical peat, implying that root production rate is important in determining C balance.

However, controls on the formation of deep peats in the tropics are not well understood.

The processes that control the formation and storage of peat at geological time scales are poorly understood but are of a non-solved issue of fundamental importance for understanding the global climate system.