Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel.
Peatbeds have sometimes a thickness of ten or twelve yards, or even more.
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The same process appears to be going on in a similar manner to-day in the peatbeds of various northern countries.
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On the basis that peat loses four fifths of its bulk in changing to coal, we may reckon the thickness of these ancient peatbeds.
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The rich Morten Bruns covets poor Ole Anderson's peatmoor and pasture land.
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Poor Ole Anderson keeps his peatmoor and his pasture land, but rich Morten Bruus is angry at me because of it.
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Restoring peatmoors may be a relatively inexpensive way of tackling climate change, by blocking up drainage ditches and bringing back vegetation to the moors.
Uso de peat bog en inglés
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A problem is in agreeing how much a peatbog emits.
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Well, they'd been buried in a peatbog for who knows how long.
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There is not much point trying to drive a Ferrari through a peatbog.
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It is an unusual type of wetland- araisedpeatbog.
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It is much harder to restore a peatbog than to replant a forest.
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The pool has been cut through a peatbog, [Footnote: Peat-bog.
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IT was found by peatbog diggers in 1894.
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Thick clouds of acrid, choking smoke from forest and peatbog fires blanketed the capital.
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The crime scene was decidedly different however, the middle of a peatbog in Co Laois.
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A peatbog is drained prior to mining.
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The peatbog won't beggar me, and the cattle at Ingvorstrup have all the hay they can eat.
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Seamus Heaney's poem Strange Fruit about a sacrificial victim preserved in peatbog reveals the lyrical power of such remains.
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Ambitious plans to restore vast tracts of peatbog in the Flow Country of Caithness and Sutherland are being finalised.
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Its timbers and materials found surrounding it in the peatbog have since been put through a barrage of tests.
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Some did not even defend themselves, like the group we caught up with splashing waist deep in a peatbog.
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Video: Reuters The stage for this eccentric sport was a peatbog outside the small town of Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales.