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THE wide interest now taken in the study of peat will, I think, justify further reference to the subject of Dr. Pearsall's article in NATURE of December 6 and the letters from Mr. Tonks and Mr. Forbes which followed on January 24. It is satisfactory to note that Dr. Pearsall has withdrawn from the obviously fallacious correlation he at first put forward. He now, however, makes a second correlation based on the identification of the birch scrub on the peat-covered 25-foot beaches as Lewis's Upper Forest, making the latter Neolithic in age and therefore climatically in conflict with the evidence in the Pennines. This yields him the same result, namely, that climatic deductions from peat and forest beds are untrustworthy.
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WRIGHT, W. The Ages of Peat Deposits. Nature 115, 336 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115336b0
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