Peat bogs

[bobthebandit]

Measurements of the peat bog layers go back 9/10,000 years, (ie 1 millimetre growth per annum). which is further evidence of the age of the planet. What was there before the peat formed?

[jackthehat]

Surely whatever it is which forms the layers beneath the peat itself............?

[wildwood]

Probably bushland. Peat is long gone vegetation and sometimes animal matter that has its decaying process delayed by the acidic condition present.

[heathfield]

Before the present-day peat formed, all vegetation would have been wiped off the landscape by ice during the last Ice Age. That Ice Age ended 9/10,000 years ago. That's the reason for the peat bog layers only being that old. Nothing to do with the age of the Earth, only the age of the peat bogs.