peat

Unconsolidated soil material consisting largely of undecomposed or slightly decomposed organic matter accumulated under conditions of excessive moisture. (Source: LANDY)



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Grootjans AP, Jansen AJM, de Hullu PC, Joosten H, Bootsma A, Grundling P-L 2015. In search of spring mires in Namibia: the Waterberg area revisited. Mires and Peat (15) 1-11
Ellery K, Ellery WN, Rogers KH, Walker BH 1991. Water depth and biotic insulation: Major determinants of back-swamp plant community composition. Wetlands Ecology and Management 1 (3) 149 - 162
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McCarthy TS, McIver JR, Cairncross B, Ellery WN, Ellery K 1990. The inorganic chemistry of peat from the Okavango Delta, Botswana: Implications for low-ash coal formation. International Journal of Coal Geology 16 143 - 146
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Ellery K, Ellery WN, McCarthy TS, Cairncross B, Oelofse R 1989. A peat fire in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, and its importance as an ecosystem process. African Journal of Ecology 27 7 - 21
McCarthy TS, McIver JR, Cairncross JR, Ellery K, Ellery WN 1989. The Inorganic chemistry of peat from the Maunachira channel-swamp system, Okavango Delta, Botswana. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 53 1077 - 1089
Cairncross B, Stanistreet IG, McCarthy TS, Ellery WN, Ellery K, Grobicki TSA 1988. Palaeochannels (stone-rolls) in coal seams: Modern analogues from fluvial deposits of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, southern Africa. Sedimentary Geology 57 107 - 118
Thompson K 1976. The primary productivity of African wetlands, with particular reference to the Okavango Delta. Proceedings of the Symposium on the Okavango Delta and its future utilisation