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Значения термина peat bog на английском

португальский
paul
каталонский
aiguamoll
испанский
pantano

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.

paul

Wetland where peat is extracted.

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Examples for "peat bed"
Examples for "peat bed"
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A coal seam is a fossil peat bed.
The Elements of Geology
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Peat beds have sometimes a thickness of ten or twelve yards, or even more.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action
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The same process appears to be going on in a similar manner to-day in the peat beds of various northern countries.
The Story of Germ Life
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Arrival of Treaty and Half-breed Commissions at Edmonton-Departurefor Athabasca Landing-Tawutináowpeat beds, etc.-Arrival at the Landing-Thegas well there-Boats and trackers-Mr.
Through the Mackenzie Basin / A Narrative of the Athabasca and P...
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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 peat beds.
The Elements of Geology
1
The rich Morten Bruns covets poor Ole Anderson's peat moor and pasture land.
The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
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Poor Ole Anderson keeps his peat moor and his pasture land, but rich Morten Bruus is angry at me because of it.
The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
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Restoring peat moors may be a relatively inexpensive way of tackling climate change, by blocking up drainage ditches and bringing back vegetation to the moors.
The Guardian
Использование термина peat bog на английском
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A problem is in agreeing how much a peat bog emits.
Reuters
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Well, they'd been buried in a peat bog for who knows how long.
Walking dead
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There is not much point trying to drive a Ferrari through a peat bog.
The Irish Times
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It is an unusual type of wetland- araisedpeat bog.
The new yorker
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It is much harder to restore a peat bog than to replant a forest.
The Guardian
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The pool has been cut through a peat bog, [Footnote: Peat-bog.
Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools
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IT was found by peat bog diggers in 1894.
News.com.au
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Thick clouds of acrid, choking smoke from forest and peat bog fires blanketed the capital.
Reuters
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The crime scene was decidedly different however, the middle of a peat bog in Co Laois.
The Irish Times
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A peat bog is drained prior to mining.
The Guardian
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The peat bog won't beggar me, and the cattle at Ingvorstrup have all the hay they can eat.
The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
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Seamus Heaney's poem Strange Fruit about a sacrificial victim preserved in peat bog reveals the lyrical power of such remains.
The Guardian
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Ambitious plans to restore vast tracts of peat bog in the Flow Country of Caithness and Sutherland are being finalised.
BBC
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Its timbers and materials found surrounding it in the peat bog have since been put through a barrage of tests.
News.com.au
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Some did not even defend themselves, like the group we caught up with splashing waist deep in a peat bog.
The sun over breda
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Video: Reuters The stage for this eccentric sport was a peat bog outside the small town of Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales.
The Irish Times
Translations for peat bog
португальский
paulturfeira
каталонский
aiguamollmarjal
испанский
pantano