the.com/peat bog
Nature's filing cabinet: throws nothing away, not even your ancestors.
means A wetland of waterlogged, acidic ground where dead plant matter piles up faster than it can rot, slowly compressing into peat.
from 'Peat' traces back to medieval Latin 'peta,' meaning a piece of turf cut for fuel — a word likely Celtic in origin, tied to the old practice of slicing dried turf blocks from these wetlands to burn. 'Bog' comes from the Gaelic/Irish 'bogach' or 'bog,' meaning soft or marshy ground. Together the phrase simply names what it is: soft fuel-ground — though the real wonder is what that low-oxygen, acidic muck does once something falls into it, which is almost nothing at all.
- preservation power
- keeps bodies intact for over 2,000 years
- carbon storage
- stores more carbon than all forests combined
- growth rate
- grows about 1 millimeter per year
- chemistry
- acidic, oxygen-starved water stops decay cold