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| Record Name(s) | Peatland 52F-60 - 1984, Lola Lake Bog - 1984 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1986-Jun-19 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Peat
Township or Area: Zealand
Latitude: 49° 47' 54.07" Longitude: -92° 33' 6.3"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 532258.96 Northing: 5516307.44 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F15SE
Point Location Description: OFR5544 p. 91
Location Method: Data Compilation
The peatland was sampled in August 1984 as part of an OGS study.
Jun 16, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - Peatland 52F-60 is located in a glaciolacustrine basin associated with outwash deposits and the Hartman end moraine. It is a relatively complex deposit with areas of slope fen, ladder fen and raised bog as well as some basin bog portions (Monenco, 1986).
Jun 16, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - This deposit is composed of two large raised bog areas as well as of complex slope fen and ladder fen areas. The total area of this deposit is 1267 ha (excluding a pond and mineral soil islands) of which 788 ha are l m or more in thickness. 212 ha are more than 2 m deep, primarily in the southwestern section of the deposit. The unhumified layer is on average 0.7 m thick. The total average thickness is 2.1 m and that of the humified layer 1.4 m. Most of the western portion of this deposit possesses a peat layer thicker than 3 m (250 ha) while the eastern area is mostly in the range at 1-2 m. Generally, the thickness of the peat layer increases regularly and steadily along the baseline towards the northeastern end of the bog. Due to its large size this deposit contains a mix of a number of peat types. In the western bog area, sphagnum peats predominate as the surficial peats while in the eastern half sedge peats are more common even as surficial peat. At the greater depths humified shrub and wood become common constituents in addition to sedge. The total peat volume is 20.7 million m3. The volume of humified peat (H 4+) is 12.5 million m3. The area with 1 m or more of peat contains 16.321 million m3 of peat. The western area has a peat volume of over 12 million m3 in an area where the thickness is 2 m or more. This deposit has a good potential for fuel peat mining and a good potential for horticultural peat mining. The best peat mining area is in the western portion from B00E to B3400E (Monenco, 1986).
Mono - Peat and peatland evaluation of the Dryden-Lac Seul area, summary volume and appendix volumes A to F
Publication Number: OFR5544 Scale: Date: 1986
Author: Monenco Ontario Ltd.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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