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A quaking bog, schwingmoor, or swingmoor is a form of floating bog occurring in wetter parts of valley bogs and raised bogs and sometimes around the edges of acidic lakes. The bog vegetation, mostly sphagnum moss anchored by sedges (such as Carex lasiocarpa ), forms a floating mat approximately half a meter thick on the surface of water or ...
Appalachian bogs are boreal or hemiboreal ecosystems, which occur in many places in the Appalachian Mountains, particularly the Allegheny and Blue Ridge subranges. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Though popularly called bogs , many of them are technically fens .
Luhasoo bog in Estonia.The mire has tussocks of heather, and is being colonised by pine trees.. This is a list of bogs, wetland mires that accumulate peat from dead plant material, usually sphagnum moss. [1]
A mysterious, rare bog is full of surprises on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula | Oregon Field Guide; Crowberry Bog - Wetlands of Distinction; Ecological Characteristics of Crowberry Bog in the Hoh River Basin; Ecological characteristics of a coastal raised bog, one of the rarest wetland types in the western United States
The southernmost Sphagnum-heath-black spruce bog in New England. Purchased by the Nature Conservancy in 1956. Bingham Pond Bog: May 1973: Salisbury: Litchfield: private A rare undisturbed northern black spruce bog, which is missing the more common Sphagnum moss.
BSc meteorologist Janice Davila tells Bored Panda that one of the most unknown facts from her field of expertise is that weather radars are slightly tilted upward in a half-degree (1/2°) angle.
Bog-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.
Moist bogs and shrublands exist on montane plateaus and depressions. [1] For the 28 million years of existence of the Hawaiian Islands, they have been isolated from the rest of the world by vast stretches of the Pacific Ocean , and this isolation has resulted in the evolution of an incredible diversity of endemic species, including fungi ...