THE FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF PEAT SWAMPS

The formation of peat swamps can be divided into two major categories,i. e. waterlogged peatification and terrestrial. There are three types of peat swamps:raised swamps, intermediate swamps and low-level swamps. Depending on the inherent accumulating relations, a formed peat swamp may evolves form a low-level one into a intermediate or a raised one. The study of the formation and evoluation of a peat swamp is significant not only for analyses of the formation, the compesition and the nature of a peat bed, but olso for analyses of characteristics of palaeoclimate and environments even the stability of geological structures during peat-forming period.