User:AshleyParkson/Cornelia C. Cameron

Her papers
One of Cameron's papers, "Relationship between Peat Geochemistry and Depositional Environments, Cranberry Island, Maine", focused on a place called The Heath on Great Cranberry Island, Maine. She considered The Heath a great place to study the "lateral and vertical relationships between radically different peat types within" one square kilometer. There were two purposes for this research: to find out to "what extent depositional environments, peat-producing botanical communities, and chemical characteristics of peat can be correlated within a small bog/marsh," and to show how peat characteristics can differ over short distances.Cameron’s team studied various Peat and different climates all over the US. Some of the examples are: (1) a glaciated terrain in cold-temperate Maine and Minnesota (2) an island in a temperate maritime climate in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maine USA, where the tide rises fast and changes the peat completely (3) swamps along warmer climates of the US and Gulf Coastal Plains (4) the coast of Sarawak, Malaysia and river of Batang Hari. She and her research team took samples of the peat and had them analyzed in a laboratory. The bogs found in most places except for the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal plains, are domed bogs which meant that it kept rising above the soil around it. They concluded that the "geometry of the depositional basin, the level of the water table, the proximity to marine waters, and the influx of inorganic material into the swamp/bog" all affected the plants and "inorganic content" of The Heath.

Cameron authored "The geology of selected peat-forming environments in temperate and tropical latitudes", a study for the International Journal of Coal Geology focused on her field observations. In this study, she noticed that trace elements in peat deposits are affected by the environment they are in when she found different levels of concentration and different elements in different environments. Cameron determined that these trace elements identify the type bedrock underneath the peat and how the peat transported from the source to the peat swamp. She concludes that the study of modern peat deposits will help with the study of ancient coal beds. This idea was corroborated by a paper by D.V Punwani called "Peat as an Energy Alternative", which stated that through the movement of Earth's crust, peat gets trapped, loses access to air, and gets put under extreme pressures, beginning the coalification process; this paper mentioned that peat is also referred to as young coal. Cornelia Cameron's paper in the Coal Geology is solidified.