- A
bog or
bogland is a
wetland that ac****ulates
peat as a
deposit of dead
plant materials –
often mosses,
typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four...
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Peat is an ac****ulation of
partially deca****
vegetation or
organic matter. It is
unique to
natural areas called peatlands,
bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs...
- A
bog body is a
human cadaver that has been
naturally mummified in a
peat bog. Such bodies,
sometimes known as
bog people, are both
geographically and...
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commonly known as
sphagnum moss, also
bog moss and
quacker moss (although that term is also
sometimes used for
peat). Ac****ulations of
Sphagnum can store...
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character from
blanket bogs which are much
thinner and
occur in wetter,
cloudier climatic zones.
Raised bogs are very
threatened by
peat cutting and pollution...
- "
Peat Bog Soldiers" (German: Die Moorsoldaten) is one of Europe's best-known
protest songs. It
exists in
countless European languages and
became a Republican...
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Bog butter is an
ancient waxy
substance found buried in
peat bogs,
particularly in
Ireland and Scotland.
Likely an old
method of
making and preserving...
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peatlands of the
Bog of
Allen contain a
valuable part of the
archaeological record. Due to the
special preservation conditions within peat, many
kinds of...
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consecutive lengths of a 60
yards (55 m) water-filled
trench cut
through a
peat bog in the
shortest time possible,
wearing traditional snorkel,
diving mask...
- Lindow II and (in jest) as Pete Marsh, is the
preserved bog body of a man
discovered in a
peat bog at
Lindow Moss near
Wilmslow in Cheshire,
North West England...
