Summit peats (‘peat cakes’) on the fells of Finnish Lapland: continental fragments of blanket mires?
Peat deposits of area up to 50 m 2 and thickness of 10-50 cm on fell summits at 370-622 m a.s.1. in northern Finland have been mapped, analysed and dated. These summit 'peat cakes' are most frequent in northwestern Inari Lapland, in a relatively continental climate and close to the Arctic...
Published in: | The Holocene |
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Main Authors: | , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publications
2000
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/095968300670047420 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1191/095968300670047420 |