John Deere Tractor Peat Harvester extraction: Harvesting Scottish sphagnum peat, Tomintoul moorland peatland, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK
Peat forms when plant material, usually in marshy areas, is inhibited from decaying fully by acidic conditions. It is composed mainly of peat moss or sphagnum, but may also include trees, grasses and other marshland vegetation. It also includes many other types of organic remains. Its growth and degree of decomposition (or humification) depends principally on its composition and on the degree of waterlogging. Peat formed in very wet conditions will grow considerably faster, and be less decomposed, than that in drier places. This allows climatologists to use peat as an indicator of climatic change.
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Location: Tomintoul, Scotland, UK
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