Provides an estimate of the thickness of peat likely across the peatlands of wales extent.

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Attributes (5)

Attribute name Label Description
Meas_Thick Measured thickness
Peat_Thick Peat thickness
Shape_Leng
Shape_Area
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Environment

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Keywords:
deunydd organig, mawn, organic matter, peat, pridd, soil
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<p>&copy; Crown copyright. Mapping derived from soils data &copy; Cranfield University (NSRI) and for the Controller of HMSO 2022 &copy; Crown copyright 2022. Contains OS data &copy; Crown copyright and database right 2022. Contains Natural Resources Wales information &copy; Natural Resources Wales and Database Right. Contains data from BGS &copy; UKRI. All rights Reserved.&nbsp;</p>
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Purpose

<p>This dataset shows the estimated depth of peat across the Peatlands of Wales area as peat thickness. It also shows, as measured thickness<em>…

Language
English
Data Quality
<p>Full details of the sources of data used to build this map as well as the methodologies used to define the level of evidence for the presence of peat and derivation of the peat evidence score as well as estimates of peat thickness (depth), carbon stock estimates and greenhouse gas emissions are presented in the <a href="https://gov.wales/soils-policy-evidence-programme" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peatlands of Wales mapping methodology report.</a></p>
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<p>Map showing the estimated thickness of peat across each 50m cell, where peat thickness has been directly observed the mean thickness of sampled sites in the…

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Vector data is used to represent geographic data