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2. Floating mat - Wikipedia

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   A floating mat (German: Schwingrasen) is a layer of mosses and other, especially stoloniferous, plants that grows out from the shore across the surface of a lake or pond. This type of habitat is protected and is designated in the European Habitats Directive as "LRT No. 7140 Transition and Floating Mat Bogs ".

3. Floating island - Wikipedia

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   Floating island La Rota in Posta Fibreno lake, Italy. Natural floating islands are composed of vegetation growing on a buoyant mat of plant roots or other organic detritus. In aquatic regions of Northwestern Europe, several hundred hectares or a couple thousand acres of floating meadows (German Schwingrasen, Dutch trilveen) have been preserved, which are partly used as agricultural land ...

4. Lake Leon (Florida) - Wikipedia

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   Lake Leon at Tom Brown Park in Tallahassee, Florida in the late summer of 2011, view toward the West. Several floating islands can be seen made of foam mats to provide a substrate for aquatic plants. Lake Leon

5. Four of Lake Geneva's six beaches remain closed due to ... - AOL

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   Four of the City of Lake Geneva's beaches remain ... spilled paint," or where there are floating mats of algae. ... drink from "discolored water or where you see foam, scum or floating globs of ...

6. Foam line - Wikipedia

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   Foam lines are accumulations of foam, with trapped insects, exuvia, etc. found on the surface of freshwater water courses or bodies. [1] Lines appear as individual islands of foam that accumulate against obstructions, shorelines, etc. [ 2 ] Foam lines have some characteristics in common with sea foam from the marine environment which may form ...

7. Pool noodle - Wikipedia

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   A pool noodle is a cylindrical piece of flexible, buoyant polyethylene foam. Pool noodles are used by people of all ages while swimming. Pool noodles are useful when learning to swim, for floating, for rescue reaching, in various forms of water play, and for aquatic exercise. The most common dimensions are about 160 centimetres (5 ft 3 in) in ...