Almond meal vs Almond flour. Almond meal and almond flour are two baking items that often stir confusion even with baking enthusiasts who have been using either for some time. Most people who are already familiar with these would nonchalantly say they are one and the same.
Peat forms when plant material, usually in marshy areas, is inhibited from decaying fully by acidic and anaerobic conditions. It is composed mainly of marshland vegetation: trees, grasses, fungi, as well as other types of organic remains, such as insects, and animal remains.
Coal Formation. Coal formation begins when thin layers of silt covers plant material that died and fell into a swamp or bog. Each year new layers of plant material falls into the swamp until the weight of the overlying sediments drives the water out forming peat.