A report on Peat

A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials often mosses, typically sphagnum moss.

When peat accumulates, bogs and fens arise.

A mire, peatland, or quagmire is a wetland area dominated by living peat-forming plants.

Sphagnum is a genus of approximately 380 accepted species of mosses, commonly known as sphagnum moss, peat moss, also bog moss and quacker moss (although that term is also sometimes used for peat).

A fen is a type of peat-accumulating wetland fed by mineral-rich ground or surface water.

The eastern British moorlands are similar to heaths but are differentiated by having a covering of peat.

Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, combustible, sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat.

Muskeg (Ojibwe: mashkiig; maskīk; fondrière de mousse, lit. moss bog) is a peat-forming ecosystem found in several northern climates, most commonly in Arctic and boreal areas.

For example, in the area of Denmark where the Haraldskær Woman was recovered, salty air from the North Sea blows across the Jutland wetlands and provides an ideal environment for the growth of peat.

Coal is formed when dead plant matter decays into peat and is converted into coal by the heat and pressure of deep burial over millions of years.