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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]
The Vasyugan Swamp (‹See Tfd› Russian: Васюганские болота, romanized: Vasyuganskiye bolota), also the Great Vasyugan Mire [1] is the largest swamp in the northern hemisphere as well as the largest peatland in the world. [2] It is located in Russia, in southwestern Siberia. and occupies 53,000 km 2 (13,000,000 acres), which ...
A simplified definition of wetland is "an area of land that is usually saturated with water".[14] More precisely, wetlands are areas where "water covers the soil, or is present either at or near the surface of the soil all year or for varying periods of time during the year, including during the growing season".[15] A patch of land that ...
There are two types of mire: bog and fen. [2] A bog is a mire that, due to its raised location relative to the surrounding landscape, obtains all its water solely from precipitation (ombrotrophic). [8] A fen is located on a slope, flat, or in a depression and gets most of its water from the surrounding mineral soil or from groundwater ...
1622 [1] Satellite image of the swamp around the time of the wet season. The Sudd (Arabic: السد, romanized: as-Sudd, Dinka: Toc) is a vast swamp in South Sudan, formed by the White Nile 's Baḥr al-Jabal section. The Arabic word sudd is derived from sadd (سد), meaning "barrier" [2] or "obstruction". [3] The term "the sudd" has come to ...
A string bog or string mire is a bog consisting of slightly elevated ridges and islands, with woody plants, alternating with flat, wet sedge mat areas. String bogs occur on slightly sloping surfaces, with the ridges at right angles to the direction of water flow. They are an example of patterned vegetation. String bogs are also known as aapa ...
Marsh in shallow water on a lakeshore. In ecology, a marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous plants rather than by woody plants. [ 1 ] More in general, the word can be used for any low-lying and seasonally waterlogged terrain.
Swamps of Belarus. Swamps, marshes, mires, bogs, and fens are important parts of the natural landscape in Belarus. Vast swamplands historically covered the country, and currently there are around 2.5 million hectares of wetlands in Belarus. Notable swamp regions are Pinsk Marshes and Olmany swamps in Polesia and Yelnya Swamp in Vitebsk region.