Ya!!! That's the stuff that my great-great Aunt Dzinitns together with HER great-cousin (twice removed) Arturs, discovered (quite by accident).
"Palsas" was found in a lowly toilet bog in deepest Sopron near to Pecs in the western province.
For a while, they made a small fortune selling the material to various companies. The main customer was however "Ballsarrus", a large corporate manufacturer of ball bearings. They discovered that once they had been drowned in liquid cream (the lids having accidentally "come off"), the odour was quite atrocious. The cleaning substance produced by my great great aunt neutralised the smell AND return the pH value to 7.3 - near as dammit neutral.
An extract from her thesis follows:
In the Northern Subarctic zone of Eurasia palsa mires are regionally distributed.The main feature of these mires is the occurrence of cryogenic peat hillocks, named palsas, and sedge fens between them: this is equivalent to a structure between the macro- and mesostructural levels of our scheme, with the macrostructural level absent.
In the Arctic zone of Siberia peat has been accumulated only diffusely in hummock rows along frost cracks in the so-called polygon mires of tundra lowlands. Thus meso- and macrostrucural level are missing.
In Western Europe vast mire landscapes have been destroyed or have not existed at all. On the other hand, in East Europe and West Siberia bogs have in the course of time expanded, joined and formed large complexes of bog complexes" for which there is no term in English literature. The author has recommended the term mire system" for international use. Mire systems may be homonomous if the bogs united into one large mire system belong to the same mire (complex) type, and heteronomous, if they belong to different types (Masing 1972). Estonian mire systems have developed in postglacial lake depressions (limnogeneous) or in lagoons of the ancient sea coast (thalassogeneous) (Masing 1982) Now the term macrotope has been proposed (Joosten 1996).
Thus the question of investigation levels in mire research should be resolved independently for every climatic zone depending on the natural factors and processes which form and regulate the structural elements of mire ecosystems.