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Category Archives: peat
The drowning of the birches
If you cut into a peatbog, it bleeds … brown water. Peat is 90% water, taken up by the living sphagnum mosses that form the bog, and retained as they die and are compacted to form the basis of the … Continue reading
Posted in art and science, conservation, peat, peat, bogs and moors, wetlands
Tagged birches, bracket fungi, re-wetting
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‘Cold cases’: land-scape puzzles on the Solway shore
“Mr Cash went to Beckfoot … the submerged forest was not visible and I regret to say the residents he inquired from had not even heard of it”. So wrote Brian Blake in his 1955 book The Solway Firth, which … Continue reading
Posted in Allonby, dunes, peat, peat, bogs and moors, sea-bed & undersea, submerged forest
Tagged peat, piddocks, submerged forest
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