Sentence examples for bog soil from inspiring English sources
The smokiness comes from the tradition of using peat — bog soil made of decomposed vegetable matter that was harvested to fuel kilns used for drying barley.
Peat bog soil is assumed to contain a high level of carbon compared to nitrogen.
The reason for peat bog soil was the fact that it contains high amount of carbon arising from old wood and plants while nitrogen content is low.
Two samples were taken in summer time from peat bog soil in Kaltenbronn near Bad Wildbad in the black forest of Germany (sample 1: 48.471°E, 894.4°E, 894.4 m above sea level; sample 2: 48.456°E, 8.456°E, 911.8 m above sea level) and one soil sample was taken in summer time from a grassland in Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg, Germany, 48.98989°N, 8.40462°E, 116.7 m above sea level).
The development of such soils has proceeded according to the chronosequence: gley soils or protosols → peaty soils → fen soils → transitional bog soils → bog soils, whereas mineral paleosols may be found under fen, transitional bog and bog soils.
The peat soils studied in this research work, classified by ESC as drained shallow transitional (mesotrophic) bog soils and by WRB as Drainic Dystric Ombric Hemic Fibric Histosols, are located on the edges of bog areas and are fed mostly by mesotrophic surface seepage water.
Iodine Kd values were approximately seven times higher in the surface bog soils than in the deeper anoxic bog soils.
Depending on the feeding water, some of these soils developed in the direction of bog soils, with an intermediary transitional bog stage.
C/N of bog soils can be clearly distinguished from fen and tidal marshes and can be used as a pollen-independent proxy to indicate fen to bog wetland succession.
Our results show that the inhibitory effects of a humic analog on CH4 production depend on peatland type, acting primarily as a toxic compound in bog soils and as a competitive TEA in fen soils.
Sheppard and Hawkins (1995) explicitly noted this difference in iodine sorption between oxic and anoxic organic-rich sediments with experiments on bog soils.
