Assertion: peat's material | /r/MadeOf | fine roots
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text: Soundings made in sections where moss hummocks occur, give the following record: 0-10 inches; the upper 6 inches consist of mosses which merge with yellowishbrown fibrous sphagnum moss peat; the material contains fine roots and underground shoots of cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus, V. vitis-idaea var. minus), crowberry (Empetrum nigrum), and Cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus); the lower 4 inches are moist and roots of heath shrubs are abundant; in the denser wooded portions of the area, there is a well-developed root and stump level to the depth of 18 inches; the roots of standing timber are growing horizontally and distinctly flat based; 10-36 inches; reddish-brown, matted sedge peat, partly decomposed; it contains plant remains from sphagnum mosses; near the second foot level it consists of dark-colored material with woody roots of trees and shrubs; the lower portion of the layer is sedge peat free from woody fragments, saturated with water and acid in reaction; 3-7 feet; water pocket; contains brownish-colored organic residue in suspension; 7-8 feet; brown fine-grained sticky sedimentary peat; 8-10% feet; dark-brown matted fibrous sedge peat acid in reaction; woody material and thin seams of sandy fine-grained organic residue are more frequent toward the bottom; 102-12 feet; greenish-gray fine sand with plant remains from woody shrubs, grasses, and sedges, grading into dark-colored micaceous sand and, at lower levels, into bluish-gray sandy clay.