Summit peats (‘peat cakes’) on the fells of Finnish Lapland: continental fragments of blanket mires?

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Luoto, Miska, Seppälä, Matti
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2000
• Subjects: Paleontology; Earth-Surface Processes; Ecology; Archeology; Global and Planetary Change; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Inari; Empetrum nigrum; Northern Finland; Lapland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/095968300670047420; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1191/095968300670047420

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...