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The bog vegetation is characterised by luxuriant Sphagnum mosses but over most of the site dwarf-shrubs and graminoid herbaceous species dominate.
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The western shore however is characterised by broad tundra lowlands that are an extension of the Hudson Bay Lowlands and the vegetation is mostly muskeg bog.
Bedrock geology for both areas is shale overlain locally by glacial till and blanket bog vegetation is well developed.
It is composed mainly of wetland vegetation: principally bog plants including mosses, sedges and shrubs.
In cool climates with consistently high rainfall, the ground surface may remain waterlogged for much of the time, providing conditions for the development of bog vegetation.
The bog vegetation, mostly Sphagnum moss anchored by sedges ( such as Carex lasiocarpa ), forms a mat half a metre or so thick, floating over water or very wet peat.
However typical bog vegetation has not yet re-established itself.
Once paired, it builds a nest from water plants on top of floating vegetation in a shallow lake or bog.
Current vegetation of the park now include: eastern white pine, red pine, aspen – birch, mixed hardwoods, jack pine barrens, and conifer bog.
The vegetation consists of wet and dry heath, species-rich bog and carr woodland, with transitions between all these habitats.
It is the dominant plant in most heathland and moorland in Europe, and in some bog vegetation and acidic pine and oak woodland.
Reeds and similar plants do not generally grow in very acidic water, and so in these situations reed beds are replaced by other vegetation such as poor-fen and bog.
Black spruce, tamarack, willow and bog and sphagnum mosses are the major vegetation types found in these lowlands.
The raised bog which covers most of the site contains characteristic vegetation and structural features associated with this type of habitat such as bog pools and hummocks.
The bog vegetation features a high percentage cover of sphagnum mosses, ericoid dwarf-shrubs such as cross-leaved heath Erica tetralix and heather Calluna vulgaris, and other associated species such as hare's-tail cottongrass
Few plant species can live in the acid condition of the bog, but those that can form a vegetation not found outside Ireland.
The blanket bog exhibits a wide range of characteristic vegetation and structural features, with well-developed pool, hummock and lawn features, acid flushes and bog
The area is not entirely a glade, but a bog or wetland covered with all sorts of decaying vegetation.
Their environmental impact may include soil loss, compaction, and erosion ; trampling of vegetation ; reduction in the vastness of plants ; increased tree deaths by chewing on bark ; damage to bog habitats and waterholes ; spreading of invasive weeds ; and various detrimental effects on population of native species.
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The island is 87 % peat bog.
This process is slow enough that in many cases the bog grows rapidly and fixes more carbon from the atmosphere than is released.
The Gundestrup Cauldron, which was deposited in a bog in Himmerland in the 2nd or 1st century BC, shows that there was some sort of contact with southeastern Europe, but it is uncertain if this contact can be associated with the Cimbrian expedition.
Since 1996 the Lake Ladoga Challenge is an annual competition for 4x4 vehicles and ATVs that travels through over 1200 kilometers of the mud, swamp and bog that surround Lake Ladoga.
Lindow Man, also known as Lindow II and ( in jest ) as Pete Marsh, is the preserved bog body of a man discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss near Wilmslow in Cheshire, North West England.
Lindow Man is not the only bog body to have been found in the moss ; Lindow Woman was discovered the year before, and other body parts have also been recovered.
Lindow Moss () is a peat bog in Mobberley, Cheshire, which has been used as common land since the medieval period.
Lindow Moss is a lowland raised mire ; this type of peat bog often produces the best preserved bog bodies, allowing more detailed analysis.
According to Brothwell, it is one of the most complex examples of " overkill " in a bog body, and possibly has ritual meaning as it was " extravagant " for a straightforward murder.
Archaeologists John Hodgson and Mark Brennand suggest that bog bodies may have been related to religious practice, although there is division in the academic community over this issue and in the case of Lindow Man, whether the killing was murder or ritualistic is still debated.
Such a find is known as a bog body.
It is likely that the body had shrunk in the bog.
* Earliest surviving ski is left in a peat bog at Hoting, Sweden, about this time.
Recent fossil records, according to the British Ornithological Union, show Cygnus olor is among the oldest bird species still extant and it has been upgraded to " native " status in several European countries, since this bird has been found in fossil and bog specimens dating back thousands of years.
Limonite is named from the Greek word for meadow ( λειμών ), in allusion to its occurrence as bog iron ore in meadows and marshes.
The majority of the plateau is at an elevation of 1500 metres ( 5000 ft ), where inverted treelines in valley bottoms give rise to grasslands, with bog and fen communities of Sphagnum and Empodisma in watercourses.
Muskeg is approximately synonymous with bogland, but muskeg is the standard term in Western Canada and Alaska, while ' bog ' is common elsewhere.
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Carn / Glenshane Pass is a large area of intact blanket bog, characterised by undulating topography and including a large, well-developed hummock and pool system within a thick mantle of blanket peat.
The name Seskinore is derived from the Irish Seisceann Odhar, which means " brownish marsh / bog ", and the area to the north on the way to Omagh is characterised by lowland raised bog.
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The weapon may be further used to bog down an advancing army making them more vulnerable to counter attack by the defending force.
The revised alignment presented a considerable problem: the crossing of Chat Moss, an apparently bottomless peat bog, which Stephenson eventually overcame by unusual means, effectively floating the line across it.
For centuries the peat from the bog was used as fuel, and it continued to be extracted until the 1980s, by which time the process had been mechanised.
Encouraged by the discovery of Lindow Man, a gazetteer was compiled and revealed a far higher number of bog bodies: over 85 in England and Wales and over 36 in Scotland.
Dusty in the dry season, a bog in the rains, the place was inhabited by the fierce Querandí tribe that resented having the Spaniards as neighbors.
* Cass Field Station-Provides a wide range of environments: montane grasslands, scrub, riverbed, scree, beech forest, swamp, bog, lake, stream and alpine habitats ; all accessible by day-trips on foot
* Wander McMooch ( performed by Bob Stutt )-Wander McMooch is a terrible warty toad-like creature who lives in some form of swamp or bog.
The German scientist Dr. Alfred Dieck catalogued the existence of over 1, 850 northern European bog bodies in 1965, but many cannot be verified by documents or archaeological finds ; in fact, an article in the German archaeology journal called " Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt " concluded that many of the cases were fabricated.
The bog acids, with pH levels similar to vinegar, conserve the human bodies in the same way as fruit is preserved by pickling.
However, a CT scan of Grauballe Man by Danish scientists determined his skull was fractured due to pressure from the bog long after his death.
The first more fully documented account of discovery of a bog body was at a peat bog on Drumkeragh Mountain in County Down, Ireland ; it was published by Elizabeth Rawdon, Countess of Moira, the wife of the local landowner.
A. Worsaae, who argued that the body was Iron Age in origin, like most bog bodies, and predated any historical persons by at least 500 years.
Subsurface radar can be used by archaeologists to detect bodies and artifacts beneath the bog surface before cutting into the peat.
The face of one bog body, Yde Girl, was reconstructed in 1992 by Richard Neave of Manchester University using CT scans of her head.
Several bog bodies are notable for the high quality of their preservation and the substantial research by archaeologists and forensic scientists.
Bituminous coal is an organic sedimentary rock formed by diagenetic and sub metamorphic compression of peat bog material.
Where streams of base-rich water run through bog, these are often lined by strips of fen, separating " islands " of rain-fed bog.
Several bison skulls and skeletal remains thought to be over 2000 years old, as well as an Indian grinding rock, were unearthed in a peat bog by the Nikolayson family in Section 33 in the 1960s, and now are on display in the University of Minnesota in nearby Crookston.
Encumbered by their vast supply train, the British slowly began to bog down, giving the Americans the time needed to safely withdraw across the Hudson River.
In June it is coloured by yellow flag, marsh cinquefoil, bog bean, and ragged robin ( a source of nectar for the adult swallowtails ).
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