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Is peat a type of fossil fuel?

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No, it is not a fossil. It is however the first stage of producing a fossil fuel. Peat is thick vegetation that has died and built up in layers in a wet environment which doesn't decay normally (aerobic decay) because of a lack of oxygen in the layers. Anaerobic decay, or a very slow process of composting, occurs in a peat bog which eventually becomes a coal deposit, over hundreds of thousands or millions of years. Instead of creating carbon dioxide, like aerobic bacteria, and fungi produce in normal decay, Anaerobic bacteria produce methane gas as they break down the peat. This produces lignite or brown coal, which as it ages and the lignite compacts eventually, giving up moisture and nitrogen, become progressively harder and darker coals.

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When vegetation in the carboniferous era fell on the ground, it rotted (decomposed) to form peat. As sediments kept accumulating over the peat, the peat hardened to form coal. So you can say peat is how coal, a fossil fuel, was formed

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Peat is both a living biomass and an ancient fossil. It is the biomass that you buy at the garden center as Peat Moss.

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Yes its non renewable and renewable.

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