TABLE OF CONTENTS


Executive Summary-Paulette Bond ...................... 1
Acknow ledgements .................................. 3
Purpose and Scope of the Study ......................... 3
Historical Perspective of Peat Research in Florida ............ 4
Definition of Peat and the Significance of This
 Definition- Paulette Bond ............................ 5
 Terminology Relating to the Peat Forming Environment ..... 6
 Peat: Agricultural or Mineral Resource? ................ 7
 Harvesting or M ining .............................. 9
 Classification Systems Applied to Peat ................. 11
 Parameters Affecting Peat Use for Fuel ................ 13
The Accumulation of Peat-Paulette Bond ................. 14
 The Process of Peat Formation ................... .... 14
 Geologic Conditions Associated with Peat Accumulation .... 14
The Accumulation of Peat in Florida-Paulette Bond .......... 16
 Rates of Peat Accumulation in Florida ................. 16
 Geologic Settings of Peat Accumulation in Florida ........ 17
Inventory of Peat in Florida-Paulette Bond ................. 26
 Mapping and Evaluating the Peat Resource .............. 26
 Current Estimates of Peat in Florida ................... 28
The Everglades Agricultural Area-Paulette Bond ............ 29
 History of the Everglades Agricultural Area .............. 29
 Crops and Soils of the Everglades Agricultural Area ....... 33
 Subsidence ..................................... 35
 Conservation Measures ............................ 36
 The Near Future of the Everglades Agricultural Area ....... 40
Mining Technology-Kenneth M. Campbell ................. 43
 Mining Methodology Associated with the Use of Peat for
 F uel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3
 Mining Methodology Associated with the Agricultural Use of
 Peat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4
Industrial Uses of Peat-Kenneth M. Campbell .............. 45
 Preparation of Peat for Industrial Utilization ............. 45
 Fuel U ses ...................................... 46
 Direct Com bustion ............................ 46
 G asification ................................. 47
 Biogasification ............................... 47
 Industrial Chem icals .............................. 48
 Bitum ens ................................... 48
 Carbohydrates ............................... 49
 Hum ic A cids ................................. 49
 Peat Coke, Peat Tar and Activated Carbon ........... 50