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This is a list of bogs, wetland mires that accumulate peat from dead plant material, usually sphagnum moss. [1] Bogs are sometimes called quagmires (technically all bogs are quagmires while not all quagmires are necessarily bogs) and the soil which composes them is sometimes referred to as muskeg ; alkaline mires are called fens rather than bogs.
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Bogs of Europe by country (12 C) I. Bogs of Ireland (2 C, 8 P) This page was last edited on 19 December 2016, at 03:55 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Sphagnum bogs were widespread in northern Europe [10] but have often been cleared and drained for agriculture. A paper led by Graeme T. Swindles in 2019 showed that peatlands across Europe have undergone rapid drying in recent centuries owing to human impacts including drainage, peat cutting and burning. [ 11 ]
Bogs of the Republic of Ireland (37 P) N. Bogs of the Netherlands (4 P) S. Bogs of Sweden (3 P) Bogs of Switzerland (2 P) U. Bogs of the United Kingdom (1 C)
Bogs of Europe (2 C) N. Bogs of North America (2 C) Pages in category "Bogs" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect ...
A cataclysmic volcanic eruption on Heimaey in 1973 covered the area in 200 millions tons of ash and lava but miraculously just one death was reported. Today, utter peace reigns, with lonely hiking ...
Blanket bogs are found extensively throughout the northern hemisphere - well-studied examples are found in Ireland and Scotland, but vast areas of North American tundra also qualify as blanket bogs. In Europe, the southernmost edge of range [3] of this habitat has been recently mapped in the Cantabrian Mountains, northern Spain, but the current ...