Sentence examples for raised bog from inspiring English sources

The raised bog itself receives only rainwater.

A moat containing some open water typically surrounds a raised bog where water drains from the raised bog and surrounding upland.

Thus, continued upward growth of the bog plants creates a raised bog.

Because rain is very low in mineral content, the raised bog is more completely dominated by the characteristics of Sphagnum than that of the floating bog.

Heaths, larches, and black spruce, which grow fairly well on the floating bog, survive only as stunted specimens around the edges of the raised bog.

The raised bog is similar to the ordinary bog except that it does not lie in a depression but is raised above the surroundings.

Toward the centre of the raised bogs, trees are shorter or absent.

As is the case in colder regions, the bogs may fill low basins, or they may develop into raised bogs.

It takes a thousand years for raised bogs to build up a metre depth of peat.

Extensive heathlands were reclaimed in the 19th century, and several new settlements were established in the raised bogs of De Peel (southeast of Deurne), where the sale of peat was combined with horticulture and cattle raising.

Here is an island where the raised bogs are threatened by industrial harvesters, where nobody quite remembers the old stories, and the remaining islanders have only a staticky sense of their ancient language and history.