On this surface the encroaching muskeg sea developed a carbonate bank fringed by coastal sabkhas in which gypsiferous deposits were formed.
Summer travel in the boggy lands, or muskeg country, of the Subarctic's taiga was also slow and arduous.
The muskeg berries did not allay this gnawing, while they made his tongue and the roof of his mouth sore with their irritating bite.
He picked his way from muskeg to muskeg, and followed the other man's footsteps along and across the rocky ledges which thrust like islets through the sea of moss.
