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  2. Peat - Wikipedia

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    Peat provides around 4% of Finland's annual energy production. [91] Also, agricultural and forestry-drained peat bogs actively release more CO 2 annually than is released in peat energy production in Finland. The average regrowth rate of a single peat bog, however, is indeed slow, from 1,000 up to 5,000 years. Furthermore, it is a common ...

  3. List of bogs - Wikipedia

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    Alfred Bog - a dome bog in eastern Ontario, Canada sphagnum bog east of Ottawa in eastern Ontario; The Bog - a putrescent lowland in Saint-Henri, Quebec known for its diverse array of toads and squires; Burns Bog - in British Columbia, the largest domed peat bog in North America; Eagle Hill Bog - A small spaghnum bog on Campobello Island, New ...

  4. Bog butter - Wikipedia

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    Bog butter from A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, 1857. Bog butter is an ancient waxy substance found buried in peat bogs, particularly in Ireland and Scotland. Likely an old method of making and preserving butter, some tested lumps of bog butter were made of dairy, while others were made of ...

  5. Bog - Wikipedia

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    A quaking bog, schwingmoor, or swingmoor is a form of floating bog occurring in wetter parts of valley bogs and raised bogs and sometimes around the edges of acidic lakes. The bog vegetation, mostly sphagnum moss anchored by sedges (such as Carex lasiocarpa ), forms a floating mat approximately half a meter thick on the surface of water or ...

  6. Muskeg - Wikipedia

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    Muskeg is approximately synonymous with bog or peatland, and is a standard term in Canada and Alaska. The term became common in these areas because it is of Cree origin; maskek ( ᒪᐢᑫᐠ ) meaning "low-lying marsh".

  7. Bog iron - Wikipedia

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    Bog iron is a form of impure iron deposit that develops in bogs or swamps by the chemical or biochemical oxidation of iron carried in solution. In general, bog ores consist primarily of iron oxyhydroxides , commonly goethite (FeO(OH)).