Border horizon

The borderline is at the level of the dotted line at the transition from white to black peat

Boundary horizon describes a characteristic stratum boundary found in Central European moors between older, more strongly decomposed black peat and the younger and less decomposed white peat above it . Botanists , geologists and climatologists attribute the emergence of the border horizon to climate changes. In the peat archeology of the border horizon is an important tool for stratigraphic dating embedded in mud archaeological finds .

The term border horizon was coined by the German botanist Carl Albert Weber and is also used in other languages ​​in German spelling.

Web links

• H. Nietsch: On the problem of the border horizon of European sphagnum bogs .