Sentence examples for extraction of peat from inspiring English sources

Before archaeologists began actively searching for bog bodies, the bodies were discovered mostly during the routine extraction of peat, and then reburied or discarded.

England's environment continued to be shaped throughout the period, through the building of dykes to drain marshes, tree clearance and the large-scale extraction of peat.

Most extraction of peat from the moors had ended by 2004, after the peat extraction rights, then owned by Scott's, had been bought by the government for £17 million, but a small-scale operation was still active in 2005.

They had been used for small-scale extraction of peat for fuel from medieval times, and probably much earlier, but commercial extraction of the peat for animal bedding began in the 1880s.

Before the fens were drained, the harvesting of osier (willow) and sedge (rush) and the extraction of peat were important activities, as were eel fishing from which the settlement's name may have been derived and wild fowling.

The extraction of fuel peat changes the GHG emissions (especially methane emissions) from peatlands (Kirkinen and others 2007b).

The increase of the water table after peat extraction and preservation of the original undisturbed peatland vegetation in the area neighbouring a mined site during the process of peat extraction are recommended to promote spontaneous recovery of the peatlands.

This study evaluated the function and characteristics of drained peatland areas for purification of peat extraction runoff water.

Extraction of microbial community DNA from peat samples yielded diverse PCR amplicons from dissimilatory sulfite reductase (dsrAB) genes, indicating varied bacterial taxa capable of reducing forms of oxidized sulfur.

However, they agreed to leave a minimum of 50 cm of peat, so that the moors could recover once extraction ceased.

By 2002, the cutting rights were owned by Scotts, and most cutting of peat effectively ended in 2001, since the government buy-out of the extraction rights from Scotts in 2002 occurred before the cutting season had begun.