NOUN
- wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel
How To Use peat bog In A Sentence
- Help to open up an area of peat bog by cutting and burning small trees at Cumbria Wildlife Trust's Foulshaw Moss, near Witherslack, on Saturday.
- If this pipeline was constructed and the court subsequently held it should be removed, that could not be done without irreparable damage to reclaimed peat bogland.
- It is very surprising to find certain relict habitats related to the northern European freshwater ecosystems, such as sphagnum peat bogs, and birch (Betula pendula) copses. Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests
- The reason why it was so well preserved was that it was recovered from a peat bog.
- He found a few others: a sphagnum moss peat bog can repel the invasion of pine trees for thousands of years.
- The main landscape feature is endless peat bog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires.
- The Nerussa River, a secluded waterway surrounded by peat bogs and old-growth oak forests, meandered through this area.
- Like oil, gas and coal fields, peat bogs act as vast carbon stores.
- Abandoned blackhouses are perched on the edge of the east coast surrounded by peat bogs, and the walls of his chemical factory now form the garden wall of the Catholic presbytery.
- The route meanders up, over the rocks and then more peat bog.