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[[Image:Trevertalbert4.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Trever Talbert]] Morta]]Several pipe makers are using Morta, which is an excellent material for pipe making. | [[Image:Trevertalbert4.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Trever Talbert]] Morta]]Several pipe makers are using Morta, which is an excellent material for pipe making. | ||
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Several pipe makers are using Morta, which is an excellent material for pipe making.
Morta, or bog oak, is partially petrified oak that comes from trees that have fallen into peat bogs. Being buried in the peat bog preserves the wood from decay due to it's acidity and anaerobic conditions. Over the coarse of time, tannins are leached out, leaving the wood in the early stages of fossilization. If the process continues, the wood would eventually turn into lignite and coal, a process that takes millions of years.
Trever Talbert maker of "The Scallop", a beautiful example of a Morta pipe pictured on the right, has made Morta a regular part of his work. Examples of Trever's Morta pipes can be seen in Trever's Morta Pipe Gallery. Trever also describes the process of finding, harvesting, curing, and making pipes from Morta on the following pages Creation of Morta Pipes.