Research of the Peat Deformation and Working out During the Process of Agricultural Utilization

Abstract

On the basis of the long-term data of instrumental observations the regularities of thickness reduction of an individual peat layer at the deposit depth after the reclamation were determined at the trial plots. The empirical dependences which allow, by the indices of physical properties of each kind of peat in the deposit before the reclamation (by the data of geological engineering surveys made before the reclamation), to predict the decrease of individual peat layers on any date after the reclamation, as well as the deposit surface deformation depending on the character of agricultural utilization of the peat dried out.