Bog-wood - Wikipedia
WEBBog-wood (also spelled bogwood or bog wood), also known as abonos and, especially amongst pipe smokers, as morta, [1] is a material from trees that have been buried in peat bogs and preserved from decay by the acidic and anaerobic bog conditions, sometimes for hundreds or even thousands of years.
Types of peatlands - International Peatland Society
WEBBog or ombrogenous mire: A peatland that is raised above the surrounding landscape and that receives water only from precipitation. Fen or geogenous mire: A peatland that is situated in a depression and receives water that has …
Ancient peat bog discovered below Esperance's Wharton Beach …
WEB22 hours ago · The black sand around it was an ancient peat bog, and the dunes at its base even older — about 12,600 years old. But, perhaps, the most exciting factor was it had been sealed over by sand and ...
Digging into Minnesota's peat, an underappreciated climate …
WEBOct 10, 2022 · Walking across the bog is like stepping on a giant, soggy carpet of sphagnum moss in vibrant hues of pink and green. Tucker calls the moss the ecosystem engineer of the peatlands....
Bog - Wikipedia
WEBBogs are widely distributed in cold, temperate climes, mostly in boreal ecosystems in the Northern Hemisphere. The world's largest wetland is the peat bogs of the Western Siberian Lowlands in Russia, which cover more than a million square kilometres. [9]
Bog
WEBOct 19, 2023 · A bog is a freshwater wetland of soft, spongy ground consisting mainly of partially decayed plant matter called peat. Bogs are generally found in cool, northern climates. They often develop in poorly draining lake basins created by glaciers during the most recent ice age.
Peat bogs - WWT
WEBRare butterflies hover over purple heather and patchworks of sphagnum moss, ranging in colour from yellow, green and orange through to reds and crimsons. Mysterious twisted shapes emerge from the watery treeless landscape - the remains of fossilised trees, that hint at a different past.
Bog Oak | The Wood Database (Hardwood)
WEBThe extremely low oxygen conditions of the bog protect the wood from normal decay, while the underlying peat provides acidic conditions where iron salts and other minerals react with the tannins in the wood, gradually giving it a distinct dark brown to almost black color.
WEBthe various carnivorous plant species of UK peat bogs occupy differing zones characterised by differing species of Sphagnum bog moss (right), while birds such as dunlin use higher zones for nesting and wetter zones for feeding.
A unified explanation for the morphology of raised peatlands
WEBDec 13, 2023 · Raised peatlands, or bogs, are gently mounded landforms that are composed entirely of organic matter 1, 2, 3, 4 and store the most carbon per area of any terrestrial ecosystem 5. The shapes of...
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