Neither. Best to pick aboveground plant parts (wood, bark, seeds, leaf) or insect exoskeletons and treat them with 5% KOH and 10% HCl. This will remove carbonates and humic acids. Unfortunately humin is insoluble with this treatment. However, if you have good quality macros you should be okay.

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Would love to buy the palynology books. Is there an email I can use to communicate?

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Looks like a solifluction/creep slump. Happens usually on very gentle slopes. What age do you estimate the overlying peat is?

Palynology is where a core is taken of a bog. Pollen is laid down annually on the bog & survives protected in the moss as it grows. The core is sampled at intervals & inspected under a microscope & data extrapolated, carbon dated & read & vegetation identified

We call this one Pitcher Garden - a nascent Sphagnum dome with Larix laricina north of the Greater Sudbury Area (ON). 7 m-long peat core 🫶🏼 Hopefully this site would have none of the poisonous legacy of the smelter era.

Looking forward to your results Mike. We have just started a similar project in Southern Ontario on 2 constructed wetlands with emergent Typha and deep water (up to 1.5 m deep).