The peat beds that support sawgrass are slightly elevated and may begin abruptly creating ridges of grass.

To the south of the town centre is a large peat bed unique to the region.

In 1933, while dry, the peat bed began burning but became a shallow lake by the 1940s.

Mute Swan subfossils, 6,000 years old, have been found in post-glacial peat beds of East Anglia, Great Britain.

They are mainly freshwater wetlands underlain by peat beds that limit the entry of saline groundwater.

Under the mat a peat bed develops.

Overgrown tracks climb up the mountain from the valley to the peat beds and sheilings on the hillside.

Of course, the rocks that contain abundant plant remains are mostly those which were deposited in freshwater lakes, or on deltas, or the fossilized remains of peat beds.

In the intervening regions these deposits interdigitate, periods of marine transgression being indicated by silts and periods of regression by peat beds.

Beach formations and peat beds indicate Wawasee was 7 to 8 feet (2.1 - 2.4 m) deeper than present.