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| Record Name(s) | Jock River Peat - 1901, Peatland #31F - 551A - 1983, Goodwood Marsh - 1983 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1993-Feb-25 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Dec-05 |
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Primary Commodities: Peat
Township or Area: Beckwith
Latitude: 45° 5' 14.27" Longitude: -76° 4' 11.99"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 415796 Northing: 4993205 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F01SE
Point Location Description: Point 4.75 km north of Franktown.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Good access is available from a secondary road which cuts through the northeast corner of the peatland. Selective cutting was evident throughout the peatland. Farmland and forested areas surround the entire peatland.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Lignite | 1 | Peat | Is |
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Sep 03, 2015 (A Wilson) - The hardwood trees (black ash and poplar) are found on shallow peat deposits (less than 1 m) and on the upland sites. Past logging activity was evident in the northwestern corner of the peatland, but regeneration is now well established. The eastern baseline has a shallower peat depth ranging in depth from 0-50 cm; passes through some uplands; and has a humification in the surficial layer of H2 to H3 ranging. The humification of the humified layer ranges from H4 to H6 with thickness varying from 25 cm to 225 cm. The basal sediments are sand in the shallow peat (less than 1 m) deposit and clay in the deep peat. The peat type consists of predominantly carex material ranging from 50 to 100 percent while the remaining material is of lignin origin. Some areas have a thin layer of sphagnum. The western baseline has clay, rock and sandy basal sediment. The surficial layer has a humification of H3 ranging from 25 cm, to 100 cm in thickness. The humified layer varies from H4 to H5 with a thickness ranging from 100 cm to 350 cm. The peat type consists of 50 to 100 percent carex material while the remaining material lignin or sphagnum in origin. The peat isopach map indicates shallower peat to the west of the baseline
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
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| Jock River Peat | 1983 | Probable | 10 | This peatland has the potential for both fuel and horticultural uses. The total volume of peat in the surveyed area of this peatland is approximately 7.86 x 106 m3 of which 1.20 x 106 m 3 is of surficial material (H1-H3) and the remaining 6.66 x 106 m3 consists of humified material. |
Mono - Volumes 1 and 2, peat and peatland evaluation of the Pembroke area (part of NTS 1:250 000 series map sheet 31F)
Publication Number: OFR5449 Page: 69-71 Date: 1983
Author: Ecological Services for Planning
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Geological series, Paleozoic geology, Carleton Place area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P2725 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1984
Author: Williams D.A., Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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