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Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs...

The name coco peat may refer either to coir or the pith or a mixture, as both have good water-retaining properties as a substitute for peat. The name coir...

lawns or for use in container gardens. Potting soil, compost, manure and peat are also sold for domestic uses with each having specific intended purposes...

including minimising flood risk and erosion, purifying water and regulating climate. Peatlands are under threat by commercial peat harvesting, drainage and conversion...

a year on the highest peaks. Strong winds are an important factor in peat erosion on the summits. The primary habitat of the uplands consists of heath...

A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog. Such bodies, sometimes known as bog people, are both geographically and...

mashkiig; Cree: maskīk; French: fondrière de mousse, lit. moss bog) is a peat-forming ecosystem found in several northern climates, most commonly in Arctic...

Palsas are peat mounds with a permanently frozen peat and mineral soil core. They are a typical phenomenon in the polar and subpolar zone of discontinuous...

to the soil surface, around trees, paths, flower beds, to prevent soil erosion on slopes, and in production areas for flower and vegetable crops. Mulch...

in the Netherlands, and farmers would mine the peat to burn or sell, thus contributing to the erosion of the landscape. The first great step to reclaiming...

slopes under the force of gravity. It differs from other processes of erosion in that the debris transported by mass wasting is not entrained in a moving...

ISBN 978-0-632-01477-4. Evans, Martin; Warburton, Jeff (2010). Geomorphology of Upland Peat: Erosion, Form and Landscape Change. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4443-3741-9...

suffer from other environmental problems such as desertification and soil erosion. Another problem is that deforestation reduces the uptake of carbon dioxide...

for dried peat as fuel. First all the peat down to the groundwater table was dug away. In the 16th century a method was developed to dig peat below water...

concrete seawalls, under precast concrete erosion control blocks, beneath large stone riprap, and in other erosion control situations. He used different styles...

Norfolk Broads. The lakes, known as broads, were formed by the flooding of peat workings. The Broads, and some surrounding land, were constituted as a special...

of equilibrium of a stable soil. Retrogression is primarily due to soil erosion and corresponds to a phenomenon where succession reverts the land to its...

occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or...

and mires, which are wetlands that have accumulated deposits of acidic peat. Marshes provide habitats for many kinds of invertebrates, fish, amphibians...

Iraq, traditionally inhabited in part by the Marsh Arabs. In Asia, tropical peat swamps are located in mainland East Asia and Southeast Asia. In Southeast...