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Tenth International Course on Land Drainage-Chapter 2.5 1971
(Kenya Agriculture Research Institute, 1971) Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
As peat is accumulated organic material it is only formed at places where the quantity of organic matter grown in a certain period exceeds the quantity of organic matter decayed in the same period. Water always plays an important role in peat formation: because it works as a preservative against decay. In wet climates areas with a poor natural drainage – lowest parts, gentle or no slope - may have peat growth, In the temperate zone peat is rather common 1 e.g. in Ireland, Great Britain, Holland, Germany, Poland and the northern isles of Japan,