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How to use peat in a sentence

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I see myself reclining by a roaring peat fire, glass of whisky in one hand, fat piece of shortbread in the other.
The compost, including the addition of coir can then be used to replace the peat normally used in a garden.
I had the peat mud wrap, but in the past I've had Pevonia's green coffee wrap at the Monart spa, in Ireland, which took inches off my waistline.
The commixture of peat extract and adhesive was tested for adhesion at room temperature.
This member of the Piddock family lives intertidally in mud and peat banks.
Used only in a do-it-myself mixture of seed compost, a single bag of peat lasted nearly a decade.
The pits began to fill with water, making the peat more difficult to extract and eventually the diggings were abandoned.
Fill nursery flats or wood boxes with dry peat moss, sawdust, or wood shavings.
The climate was temperate but windy, the terrain a mixture of downland, rocky hills and peat bogs.
The majority of tench fishing takes place in natural loughs or loughs produced by peat diggings.
She said that blanket bog was a layer of peat over wet rolling ground, which was usually home to plants like cotton grass and heather.
Peat baths and peat fomentations have been used since the beginning of time to alleviate pain and disease.
Charred peat surfaces have been reported in the fossil record but are absent in the K-T peat sequences.
While the Scots traditionally dry their malt over a peat fire, the Franconians fire their kilns with beech from the surrounding forests.
A bishop's crozier possibly thought to date from the early 7th century has been found in a peat bog in Co Offaly, 60 miles west of Dublin.
It may be wise to add peat moss or some form of compost to the dirt in the hole before planting the rose.
If you want to add any amendments, such as compost or peat moss, work them into the soil.
It is a peat burning station and we had no objection to the power plant because of the peat burning history in the area.
Only 800m west of the Pool there is another kettle hole, but this one was not turned into a mere but filled with gravel, peat and clay.
To prevent the clay from becoming adobe brick, she dug in 15 tons of sand, 14 truckloads of composted manure, and 25 large bales of peat moss.
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Discovered in peat bogs in central Ireland, the well-preserved human remains were unveiled this month in Dublin.
A peat fire burns all day and locals sometimes turn up with their bagpipes, accordions or mouth organs!
Rooted plants with three or four fully expanded leaves were transferred to a peat substratum and acclimatized in a glasshouse.
The recent snow and rain turned some of the peat hags into quagmires and a stiff westerly wind made the going tough.
Bogs and glacial recessional lake deposits frequently contain compressible deposits of peat and organic-rich silt.
The presence of the gas pipeline would allow for the construction of a small gas-fired Generating Station to replace Bellacorick peat station.
He said he believed that un-vegetated peat and mineral soil, especially at such an exposed location, was subject to elemental erosion.
Isolate the plants from the soil with a layer of peat moss above and below.
After drying, cut off any remaining foliage and pack the bulbs in a few layers of clean vermiculite, peat moss or excelsior.
The reason given as to why the water was still discolored was as a result of it passing through peat land.
The country is covered with a wide range of mangrove, heath, peat swamp, mixed dipterocarp, and montane forests.
Doing them in peat pots or jiffy plugs is the best way to go, as you don't disturb the roots when planting them out.
A low cliff on one bank, with an otter's holt at its foot, betrayed by a crab graveyard, on our side a gravelly shore undercutting the peat moor.
The plant material, which forms deposits of peat locally, is likely the source of the phosphate.
At 350 hectares, Foulshaw Moss is one of the largest remaining areas of peat bog habitat in Britain.
Potting mixes containing peat seem to be particularly affected by fungus gnats.
Intruders used a fireside peat basket to carry antique silverware, porcelain and clocks to a waiting van.
Place the seeds in a plastic bag with a mixture of sand and peat or other suitable growing mix.
They walked at a wearisome pace across the trembling peat bog, knee deep in flowering ling, bog cotton and black slimy mud.
Two rivers flowed between us and our destination, a miniature hut lost in an expanse of peat bog.
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A common soil mix is one part sphagnum peat moss or composted bark or compost, one part vermiculite or perlite, and one part sand.
When he was outside in darkness, lifting a peat from his stack or strolling down the lane from Elspeth's cottage, it made his neck-hairs prickle.
The fledgling peat industry at the turn of the century lobbied the federal government for assistance.
The largest frozen peat bog in the world, lying in western Siberia, is melting, according to Russian scientists.
Bark, rotted manure, leaf mold, peat moss and compost are good choices for organic ingredients.
A lot of East Anglia was covered in peat bog, until they decided to drain it.
The reason why it was so well preserved was that it was recovered from a peat bog.
The machair is an internationally rare habitat that is formed when sand is blown onto peat moorland.
What about fertilizer, bone meal, peat moss, and all those other additives they are going to try and sell you at the garden center?
Potting soil contains rich organic material such as peat and various composted barks.
Hydrogen sulfide often is present in wells drilled in shale or sandstone, or near coal or peat deposits or oil fields.
An energy tax would penalise industries which use energy based on fossil fuel, including oil, coal and peat.
Folk are few and far between amid these rounded hills, rocky ridges, peat bogs and marshes.
Use a premixed potting soil, usually composed of sand, peat moss, fine bark, perlite or vermiculite.
Hundreds of tonnes of peat and debris swept down Haworth Moor near Top Withens.
High peat cliffs on the coasts of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island are clear examples of coastal wetland loss by transgressing sea levels.
In some cases, peat excavated from mines or reserve pits has been stockpiled.
This is an extremely soft, rich mix of Canadian sphagnum peat moss, earth worm castings, bat guano, pumice and oyster shell lime.
He claimed it was found in a peat bog and was a vital missing link between modern humans and Neanderthals.
The fires penetrated into the dried-out surface peat to a depth of up to 1.5 metres.
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One farmer was able to cut turf from his land where the peat had dried to a depth of one foot.
The government had launched a campaign to increase the tonnage of turf drawn from peat bogs as a substitute.
In the surrounding fields, peat or turf is still cut, including by our guide, for fuel.
Mud was stripped off the peat over wide areas, and narrow channels were locally cut through the mud and into the peat.
You could dig the trench and fill it with sand or mulch or peat moss and make it easy to re-dig.
Look for one containing vermiculite and perlite, sphagnum peat moss, a little ground bark and sand.
For alkaline soil, ample addition of an acidic organic matter such as sphagnum peat moss is beneficial.
It is believed to get its name from a long gone drainage channel which ran over a peat bog.
Other garden peat can contain chemicals that can harm discus fish so just be careful.
Secure it into the soil at the nodes or bury a pot containing a mixture of equal parts sand and peat and secure the stem into this.
Match your Austrian adventure in the spa with a moor mud soak in the hydrotherapy tub or with a peat body wrap followed with a sauna treatment.
Add humus in the form of compost, peat moss or chopped leaves to improve clay or sandy soil.
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.
I hope Shell will use some of their expertise when they are removing the peat from the bog at Bellanaboy.
Peat-free products are those which are not sourced from the natural peat bogs and peatlands.
When planting trees and shrubs, the more compost, peat moss and other amendments you can mix into the ground, the better.
As the moisture decreases, the evaporation curve inflects at a point referred to herein as the peat evaporation inflection point.
This habitat is characterized by bog rosemary, bog laurel, and Leatherleaf on a base of peat moss.
In marked contrast, needles of a variety of conifers are frequently abundant in peat and lake deposits.
An all-purpose potting mix has composted bark, peat moss or peat humus added to loamy soil.
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This test method covers a system for visually discriminating peat and other highly organic soils on the basis of degree of humification.
These formations are commonly the seaward part of coastal swamplands that eventually develop into deep peat formations.
Both the dense forest interiors and the fringes edging peat swamps are favoured.
Most peat is made up of peat moss, or sphagnum, but it often includes other kinds of vegetation, such as trees and even animal remains.
For better growing conditions, soil can be improved by adding upgraded black peat.
In Ireland they have compressed peat briquettes as a smokeless city fuel, what is the Christchurch alternative?
The main landscape feature is endless peat bog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires.
Many gardeners prefer to mulch the beds with peat moss or grass clippings and do away with cultivating.
The peat produced in these turbaries was sometimes used within the manor or priory, but a large proportion was sold.
The profit of turbary is the right to cut turf or peat, usually in order to burn it.
I was excavating the end of a Roman trackway where it reached the edge of the gravel terrace and was covered by a layer of peat.
The big peat shed still has a fair amount of peat and a good bit of other rubbish in it including an old moped!
Rare plant life which has perished includes cloudberry, a sub-arctic bramble, which thrives on moorland peat bogs.
Abelia will take sun or partial shade and should be grown in acid soil enriched with peat moss or leaf mold.
The mangroves' waterlogged roots decayed into peat, and the peat's acidity and lack of oxygen kept the wood from rotting.
The additional pressure and heat of the overburden gradually converts peat into another form of coal known as lignite or brown coal.
These soil mixtures should include sand, peat moss, perlite, vermiculite, and fir bark for adequate drainage.
The process of state formation lagged far behind in comparison with the speed-up of economic development that took place in peat mining.
Germinate seeds in containers filled with a sterilized mix of equal parts soil, sphagnum peat moss and perlite.
Thirty-one detailed points of concern have been raised by the Bord in respect to peat excavation and its containment in repository bunds.
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The effectiveness of this compactional pump diminished over time as void space in the peat gradually collapsed.
Well-rotted manure, leaf mold, peat moss or compost are just a few of the organic materials that can be added to your soil.
This broad mass of peat hags and bog pools rises to over 680-metres at the head of Littondale.
The wet and cool oceanic climate readily supports fast-growing Sphagnum mosses, peat-forming processes and development of peat landforms.
The Nerussa River, a secluded waterway surrounded by peat bogs and old-growth oak forests, meandered through this area.
Reilly will compare the population status and dynamics of the European common frog in the three different types of peat bogs found in Ireland.
Seepaul said customers were also stocking up on manure, peat moss and miracle grow fertilisers for today's exercise.
Ombrotrophic peat bogs, which are quite common in temperate regions, receive chemical compounds only from the atmosphere.
This is particularly so if one discounts studies of the pollutant susceptibilities of Sphagnum mosses growing on peat in ombrotrophic mires.
The peat soil supports blanket bog vegetation dominated by carpets of Sphagnum mosses, cotton-grasses and heather.
The golden plover breeds in short vegetation on upland heaths and peat bogs and adults also travel each day to feed on nearby pastures.
Double-pot small plants or those that dry out quickly such as oxalis, laying in a layer of moist peat between the two pots.
Dark algal mats and waterlogged mosses on a layer of peat are spotted with carnivorous, quarter-sized sundews, red as rust.
In the Holocene period, about 10,000 BC, massive, raised peat bogs grew on top of the coastal plains.
When the vegetation dies, the dead biomass eventually becomes peat in the surface layer where it is subjected to decomposition.
The Government must take immediate steps to protect wildlife on peat bogs and to signal an end to peat use in gardening and horticulture.
Much more work is needed to understand peat accumulation processes in permanently frozen peatlands.
Where and how water is situated within wetlands, especially peatlands, is controlled by physical characteristics of the peat.
The humic organic matter of peat is also altered on burial, water and volatiles being lost during the process of coalification.
What followed was over 80,000 cubic meters of peat and water pouring down in a lava-like flow from the mountain point of Dunne's Rock.
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On the high moors, Mesolithic nomads and reindeer herders left scatters of flints which are still found in peat fire breaks to this day.
Coal balls are concretions of permineralized peat formed in place.
Sphagnum peat moss and sand can be added to amend heavy soils.
A light mulch of peat moss or straw will conserve moisture and prevent the seeds from becoming scattered.
The problem is that the chemical only lasts three to six months, and once it loses its effectiveness the peat moss will tend to either hold too much water or none at all.
To acidify alkaline soils, mix in peat or acid fertilizer periodically.
Gardeners are being urged to vote with their wellies and reject peat after a trial in North Derbyshire proved that plants can do just as well without it.
Even if you haven't, it's possible to supplement budget mixes with soil wetting agents and stir through a bit of pre-soaked peat if you've got it.
Fresh life is to be breathed into degraded peat moors in the Peak District over the next few weeks by a massive airlift of hundreds of tonnes of heather.
It is now being claimed that approximately 8 million tonnes of recoverable peat exist in the area, making the proposed development of a new power generating station viable.
Fire can also aid bog formation as particles of ash and carbon deposited into the soil profile can reduce drainage and therefore initiate peat growth.
Most dens or attempted dens are in peat banks beneath krummholz spruce and occasionally in peat banks without any trees, or in inorganic sediments along eroded river banks.
The Glen Lyon Millennium Event takes the form of a horseshoe route which follows an old peat track past a flowing burn, replete with deep pools, rockfalls and ancient trees.
King Canute dug peat to keep his people warm through the little ice age.
The inorganic sediments were covered with poorly decomposed fibric peat accumulations that contained well-preserved rudiments of earlier communities.
I remember planting with my father, and having him explain how to work the soil, how azaleas liked their oak leaves or peat moss, how you tamped the dirt, gave them a drink.
Mite wood borings in the Paleozoic are primarily known from coal ball permineralizations and silicified peat which was deposited in swampy environments.
Soggy areas called peat bogs have developed in parts of the country.
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.
Out of necessity, we might all become peat bog soldiers once again, he warned, though he forgot that large amounts of bogland have been planted in the last 20 years.
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Even back in my days as a horticultural hooligan, I only ever used peat to create a home-made compost for sowing seeds, never for potting plantlets or decorating borders.
The plants were grown in pots using a soil-less compost of peat and sand.
Rotted cow manure, compost, shredded sphagnum, granulated peat moss, sawdust and ground corncobs are some materials that may be worked thoroughly into the soil.
But so were the boulders and lumps of peat hag which pocked the scene.
Wire grass grows wild and tall in the peat bogs of the Upper Midwest.
A penecontemporaneous river, the Walshville channel, restricted peat deposition along its course, and later deposited thick elastics over the peat.
She questioned the health and safety representative, also on the possibility of ignition by a spark from a chimney fire, and of the likelihood of peat being ignited.
An empirical permineralization model was developed for the setting of a normal peat deposit overlain by a thick terrestrial shale deposited by a nearby river.
The land is mostly peat on a bed of sand, which filters the water.
Businesses were lured to eastern North Carolina by the notion of mining the rich peat soil submerged beneath vast pocosins or evergreen shrub bogs.
Cranberries are cultivated in wet peat soils or irrigated sand.
Between Loch Pattack and the peat hag-ridden moor, you will normally come across some white horses, garrons, that add to the dream-like quality of the place.
It was a direct contrast to the browns and blacks of the peat moors above.
Localized areas of humified peat and moss also occur, and more than 200 hectares of peat bog exist in the protected water area.
In open sunlight, the peat gave off an olfactory roar that recalled to Louis Thanksgiving the feculence that hung over Clarinda.
The mouth is not really complex, but so balanced... developing on tones between peat and moke or chocolate.
At the same time, the peat began to desiccate, turning into a tinder box that would ignite during the dry season.
The sea spray is typical, and a quarter of its surface is covered by peat bogs.
The peat is washed down by a high-pressure water jet, and the pulp runs to a sump.
These pastilles are out of peat or compressed fibres of coconut and inflate when they are soaked in water.
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Earwigs can also be trapped in an inverted flowerpot stuffed with newspaper or peat moss and placed in a tree.
Compost and peat moss add organic matter to the soil and tend to acidify your soil if added often or in large quantities.
A sand bar goes around the edge of the peninsula while in the centre there is a vast peat bog.
Other pieces call to mind other color words — puce, cream, chartreuse, peat, liverish, brass — that seem almost right but are, in the end, wrong.
Risley Moss in Warrington is the last remnant of a vast swathe of peat bog, providing an ideal habitat for hundreds of birds, animals, insects and plants.
They had been hidden in a conventional shipload of peat moss coming from Lithuania and Latvia.
Black spruce and tamarack grow over accumulations of organic peat in extensive bogs.
The trap was located in a forested area five meters from a large raised peat bog bordered by alders, black spruce and tamarack.
Extensive peat deposits, 1 to 3 m thick, overlie poorly drained, flat lying glaciolacustrine sediments and Cochrane Till.
Then, top-up the freshly-built compost heap with a fine layer of peat moss.
For example, a system that can use cheap fuels, such as wood, peat and straw, provides a cushion against price rises of other fuels.
Not applicable to peat, gas coke, gasworks gas, coke oven gas, blast furnace gas nor oxygen steel furnace gas.
Within Ontario you can find the snake living in a peat bog, tall grass prairie, or forest ecosystem.
This project would include construction activity within a portion of the peat bog.
Berger Group Ltd. has taken out leases over a sphagnum peat bog, 20 km south of Hadashville in southeastern Manitoba.
Notwithstanding, the access road should be constructed so as to allow the natural flow of water into the peat bog.
Sowing is carried out in containers over a substratum composed of a mixture of peat and gravel in equal proportion.
The wells are installed in a variety of wetland environments, notably fen and peat plateau.
Poor drainage in fens and the high compressibility and low strength of fen peat, make them unsuitable for any development.
Trampling results in destruction of bog vegetation, compaction of the peat, and possibly disturbance of wildlife.
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These deposits are stratified and include minor gravel, disseminated organic matter, marl, and peat bogs within the abandoned channels.
The disease is serious on sandy, loam, clay and peat soils, but is never found in marl soils.
Pearsall's project eventually aims to keep peat sequestered under the soil by planting the coast with thousands of salt-tolerant bald cypress trees.
This is what the theory of peat growth is based upon: marshland grows where there is more peat growing than decomposing.
Animals found in peat swamps include leaf-eating monkeys such as the proboscis monkey and the langurs found in Borneo.
Figures 36 to 41 depict historical Canadian production of coal, potash, salt, asbestos, gypsum and peat moss.
The difference with the screen system is that the worms go down through the screen into a prepared, pre-weighed container of moist peat moss.
The consignee was the same company as the one that had appeared in some of the peat moss consignments.
The bed consists of a 0.4metre thick layer of peat moss and a 0.2metre layer of garden soil rich in humus.
Wetland areas where peat moss is grown or is growing naturally are called peatlands.
For generations, growers and gardeners everywhere have used peat or peat moss for a variety of applications.
The project involves building a 22 kilometre public road to access a new peat moss deposit, providing Premiere Horticulture Ltd.
Use peat moss, sawdust, pearlite or bark as an alternative to vermiculite when amending the soil.
Erosion of peat cliffs and inundation of backbarrier marshes could also be expected.
They are normally confined to boggy substatra and form scrub and herbaceous stratra in the study area's ombrotrophic and minerotrophic peat bogs.
The region lies in the middle of the taiga, a sparse forest dotted with numerous peat bogs in the coastal plain.
We are also conserving the topsoil and peat that we need to remove to prepare the site for development.
Project activities will include ditching, construction of access roads, sedimentation ponds and the collection of the peat resource.
These operations typically sell bulk peat to major operators who process, bale and market the final product.
Germination Sow seeds of yucca in a gravelly mixture of peat, fibre of coconut, vermiculite and pearlite, sand or media similar.
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The domed bog contains peat atop a layer of impermeable clay formed under marine conditions over 9,000 years ago.
Peatlands allow permafrost to extend south because of the yearly variation in peat thermal conductivity associated with raised bog.
The replacement of the use of peat by compost will help to protect this natural habitat.
For example, wetlands with peat as a base are known to retain mercury very strongly.
All three factors can be positively influenced by mixing in peat dust with the soil.
The litter accumulates and, over time, eventually forms a deposit called peat.
Whenever asked for, we use peat free compost, as peat extract may harm vulnerable habitats.
Contributing to the accident was the placement of the embankment across the end of the lake, on a base composed of a mixture of peat and silt.
Conditions were heinous, the largely off-trail section proving unrideable due to dense forest, boggy peat, streams, briars, bushes and steep gradients.
Trim off all but the top three leaves, dip the cut ends in rooting powder, and set the cuttings to root in seed-starting mix or a half-and-half mixture of peat moss and sand.
The firm which manufactures butter tubs for the dairy industry as well as plastic strapping as seen on peat briquettes was once one of the major employers in Kildare.
The route meanders up, over the rocks and then more peat bog.
If the soil is particularly poor or has had problems with compaction, add at least 2 inches of peat moss, leaf compost, or other organic material.
Played out in peat lodges and ceremonial igloos the Inuit games involved contorting bodies, jumping, kicking and various arm-pulling trials of strength.
The geobotany of the region, a transition zone between boreal forest and arctic tundra, is a mosaic of treeless expanses composed of polygonized peat bog.
Guided by Swiss glaciologists, he and the others in the visiting field team found fifty samples of ancient peat and wood that had washed out from beneath the glacial ice.
Does the member know, for example, that last year in Indonesia a peat bog fire that burned for the whole year emitted more CO2 in one year than Canada's man-made emissions?
In particular, the edges of raised peat areas accumulate depths of snow considerably higher than average, and this wintertime insulation results in permafrost being absent.
Highland Park distillery in Orkney roasts malted barley for use in their Scotch whisky in kilns burning a mixture of coke and peat.
This has caused increased flooding and sedimentation, ending peat formation in the delta.
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Direct human impact in the delta began with the mining of peat for salt and fuel from Roman times onward.
When it was drained, the oxygen of the air reached it, since then the peat has been slowly oxidizing.
Many of the small islands are bare rock, but the larger islands have a layer of clay subsoil and peat soil supporting vegetation.
He used peat to manufacture salt from salt pans at both Carrick and on the Calf of Eday.
Without stabilising the compacted peat beneath the sludge, the peat loosens and can release phosphorus at a similar rate.
The pH in marshes tends to be neutral to alkaline, as opposed to bogs, where peat accumulates under more acid conditions.
The frozen peat bogs in this region may hold billions of tons of methane gas, which may be released into the atmosphere.
Subsequently, regular dives revealed a submerged cliff east of Yarmouth with large quantities of peat that dated to a similar period.
In peat bog sediments, the Boreal is also recognized by its characteristic pollen zone.
When a layer of peat in the bog is cut and pulled back using turf knives, pea sized nodules of bog iron can be found and harvested.
They are frequently covered in ericaceous shrubs rooted in the sphagnum moss and peat.
Water flowing out of bogs has a characteristic brown colour, which comes from dissolved peat tannins.
A roddon, the dried raised bed of a watercourse, is more suitable for building than the less stable peat.
Lithuania experienced a drought in 2002, causing forest and peat bog fires.
The peat produces black soils, which are directly comparable to the American muck soils.
Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, is a soft brown combustible sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat.
Lignite begins as an accumulation of partially decayed plant material, or peat.
The world's largest wetland is the peat bogs of the Western Siberian Lowlands in Russia, which cover more than a million square kilometres.
The wash of the water makes the shores of the peat lakes crumble away, and dispersed bodies of water flow together into giant lakes that pose a threat to the surrounding area.
Large peat bogs also occur in North America, particularly the Hudson Bay Lowland and the Mackenzie River Basin.
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Fisons, a multinational company, was engaged in scraping the area Dare, its peat dug up and sold to gardeners for use as potting compost, soil conditioner and mulch.
Nevertheless, the Commission, due to the renewal time of several thousand years, does not consider fuel peat as an intrinsically renewable resource.
Peat Moss is one of the most widely used soil conditioners, and although it does the job, it is extracted from peat bogs that take thousands of years to form and is therefore not a readily renewable resource.
A layer of peat fills the deepest part of the valley, and a stream may run through the surface of the bog.
Indeed, as a result of drainage and the subsequent shrinkage of the peat fens, many parts of the Fens now lie below mean sea level.
In lowland river valleys where a river can meander, the presence of peat is explained by the infilling of historical oxbow lakes.
Eventually peat builds up to a level where the land surface is too flat for ground or surface water to reach the centre of the wetland.
These become a new habitat for other plants, like peat moss when conditions are right, and animals, many of which are very rare.
Over the centuries the decomposing remnants of plants form giant peat domes some 10 to 25 kilometers in diameter, spongelike cushions that rises several metres above sea level.
Raw peat is ligneous, fibrous and elastic.
A mesotrophic bog, also called a transitional peat bog, contains a moderate quantity of nutrients.
After drying, peat is used as a fuel, and it has been used that way for centuries.
Russia is the leading exporter of peat for fuel, at more than 90 million metric tons per year.
Once the peat has been extracted, it can be difficult to restore the wetland, since peat accumulation is a slow process.
Twenty-three healing mineral springs of excellent-quality acidulous water, sulphur-ferric peat, and natural hot springs of gas have been used for the treatment vascular diseases and heart and gynaecological disorders.
Streets and roads must avoid woodlots, peat bogs, swampland, and unstable land as well as any improperly drained or flood-prone land, rock falls and cave-ins.
The peat provides a natural source of essential oils, fatty acids and lipoids which have to be artificially added to most cosmetics.
Sea clays seal off several low points on the edges of the watercourse, but their thickness does not exceed 10 m. This fine sediment, always covered with peat, makes up large surfaces of rolling landscape west of Sakami Lake.
The most common is that there was a pool near the Pier Head stained a deep liverish red colour by the peat in the soil.
If the peat decayed, carbon dioxide would be released to the atmosphere, contributing to global warming.
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Through the re-water logging subsequent to peat extraction, ecologically valuable areas of wetland occur with the possibility of developing new fenlands.
A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog.
This protective blanket of peat, which covers whole landscapes, has been largely generated by one of our smallest plants, sphagnum bog moss.
The preservation of bog bodies in peat bogs is a natural phenomenon, and not the result of human mummification processes.
As new peat replaces the old peat, the older material underneath rots and releases humic acid, also known as bog acid.
Other time-saving changes included removal of a layer of peat and replacing it with rock fill generated elsewhere on site instead of building the road on piles driven through the peat.
In addition, peat bogs form in areas lacking drainage and hence are characterized by almost completely anaerobic conditions.
Lignite, or brown coal, is naturally compressed peat and is used as a chief form of fuel in some steam-turbine power stations.
Many small railways were built to serve sand and gravel pits, cement works and the peat and timber extraction industries.
Imported perlite is expanded at numerous locations for use mainly in horticultural peat mixes as well as in lightweight and fire-resistant construction products.
For example, cut, over-drained, or otherwise modified peat bogs will contain a greater diversity of communities and species than an intact, natural bog.
A conservation plan has also been prepared for the Villeroy peat bog.
The peat at the Florida sites is loosely consolidated, and much wetter than in European bogs.
Mr. John Cummins: Yes, but this area is farmland and peat bog.
Ever since the Iron Age, humans have used the bogs to harvest peat, a common fuel source.
Mer Bleue wetland is the largest natural ecosystem in the Greenbelt, boasts the largest peat bog in the National Capital Region, and supports self-sustaining populations of many species outside of their normal range.
You can visit the Nature Reserve of Sagnes and the peat bog museum.
On various occasions throughout history, peat diggers have come across bog bodies.
The Rospuda valley is the last peat bog system of its kind in Europe.
Burns Bog is the largest domed peat bog on the west coast of North America, covering approximately 3,000 hectares of the Fraser River delta between the south arm of the Fraser River and Boundary Bay.
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Sedimentary deposits in the form of silt, peat, sand and mud are mostly found in the river valleys.
For instance, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds underlines the problems raised by the use of peat bog and its impact on birds' habitat.
The generation of peat, when not completely under water, is confined to moist situations.
The track was built on saturated peat, which was subject to settlement under repeated loads which gradually resulted in distortion and realignment of peat fibres, which most likely led to the sudden punching failure.
Today we have a dozen chickenless counties, and if fires are not checked in the peat lands, we shall end with a chickenless state.
The practice of harvesting peat moss should not be confused with the harvesting of moss peat.
Crisp DT, Robson S Some effects of discharge upon the transport of animals and peat in a north Pennine headstream.
Fens, as exemplified by the polders in the Netherlands and the lowlands in eastern England, are made up of either alluvium or peat and stand too low to be drained effectively, except by continuous pumping.
It has been filled with a few centimeters of damp peat moss and then sprinkled with a food attractive to worms, such as chicken mash, coffee grounds, or fresh cattle manure.
Those resources that they saw fit to include, Mr. Chairman, were soil, sand, gravel, clay, marl, peat, timber, mushrooms, plants and plant products.
Launchy Tarn is smaller and may have been formed by overgrazing and erosion of the underlying peat.
Although prominently named on Ordnance Survey maps, Beckhead Tarn is a small shallow pool with a bed of peat and submerged flags.
This section is often termed the 'Central Ridge' and consists of flat topped peat covered hills.
Protection is also requested for a rare hermaphrodite variety of cloudberry found in one of the peat bogs, and the companies are encouraged to step up their efforts to restore the environment after the extraction process.
He'd offered to spread the peat moss wherever she wanted it spread.
The rounded hill tops are millstone covered with shallow soil or peat above 400 metres.
Morton cleans his seeds with a machine from the late 1800s, that he's rigged up with an electric motor and he uses peat moss to protect the seeds during storage.
Absorbs and retains more water than peat moss.
It is sold under the names black soil, miracle soil and peat moss.
Soil, compost material, peat moss or anything with soil, compost material or peat moss attached are restricted from moving from Newfoundland to all other areas of Canada by the requirement for a movement certificate.

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