- 48 - IICgz- 112 to 123 cm, dark gray (5Y 4/1, moist), frozen -clay till ; amorphous ; firm when moist, hard when dry ; sticky and plastic ; very strongly acid ; ice lenses and vein ice ; ice content approximately 45 percent . Profile T35A Cryic Fibrisol (Figure 4 & Appendix I : Table 4) Of- 0 to 23 cm; very dark gray (5Y 3/1, moist), undecomposed sphagnum peat (dominantly Sphagnum and Dichranum mosses) ; loose ; extremely acid ; unrubbed fiber content 76 percent ; 1 cm thick volcanic ash at 23 cm depth ; clear, wavy boundary . Ofzl- 23 to 79 cm, black (IOYR 2/1, moist), moderately decomposed, frozen, sphagnum peat ; extremely acid ; ice crystals and some vein ice ; ice content approximately 65 percent ; unrubbed fiber content 67 percent ; gradual, wavy boundary . Ofz2- 79 to 140 cm, black (l0YR 2/1, moist), moderately decomposed, frozen sphagnum peat ; extremely acid ; ice crystals and vein ice ; ice content approximately 70 percent ; fiber content 65 percent ; clear, wavy boundary . Ofz3- 140 to 200 cm, black (l0YR 2/1, moist), moderately decomposed, frozen Drepanocladus fen peat ; extremely acid ; ice crystals and vein ice ; ice content approximately 70 percent ; unrubbed fiber content 68 percent ; clear, wavy boundary . IICgz- 200 to 257 cm, dark greenish-gray (5GY 4/1, moist), frozen, clay loam ; neutral ; 5 to 10 cm thick layers of vein ice ; ice content approximately 75 percent . Profile T27C Cryic Fibrisol (Appendix I : Table 5) Of- 0 to 25 cm, dark brown (l0YR 3/3, moist), . undecomposed sphagnum peat (dominantly Sphagnum and Dichranum mosses) ; loose ; extremely acid ; unrubbed fiber content 84 percent ; clear, wavy boundary . Ofzl 25 .to 119 cm, dark brown (l0YR 3/3, moist), undecomposed frozen sphagnum peat ; extremely acid ; ice crystals ; ice content approximately 65 percent ; unrubbed fiber content 88 percent ; gradual, wavy boundary . Ofz2- 119 to 212 cm, very dark grayish-brown (l0YR 3/2, moist), undecomposed frozen sphagnum peat ; ice crystals ; ice content approximately 65 percent ; unrubbed fiber content 78 percent ; gradual, wavy boundary .
- 4 9 - Collapse Scar I Peat Plateau Londform Sphagnum - Carex I Sphagnum r. - Carex I Black Spruce - Ledum - Sphagnum f. - Clodonia Vegetation Hydric Fibrisol Cryic Fibrisol Soil Londform Vegetation Soil m. 5 Bog Plateau Wooded Palsa Sphognum r. - Carex B . Spruce - Ledum d.- Clodonia Hydric Fibrisol Cryic Mesisol m N H 4 3 2 l I I I 0 10 20 30 m. Figure 7 . Cross-section of a peat plateau-collapse scar area (site T28) and of a high ice content wooded palsabog plateau area .
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 . SUMMARY . . .
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