peat造句

Ridges of peat and pools of dark, acidic water form a patterned peatland near Moon Point.

During filming for Top Gear, it was claimed he damaged a peat bog in Scotland.

Inland are fertile lands, expansive peat moors, and in the south, hills.

The species of microbes were also similar to those found in other polar environments, such as Arctic peat or tundra.

Another crew is focused on collecting plant matter found in a layer of peat, and they are making extraordinary discoveries.

One of the big risks for any construction on peat bogs is that the disrupted drainage will cause whole hillsides of waterlogged or dried out peat to slide and eventually oxidise.

Coal deposits, after all, are petrified peat swamps, and peat is made from decaying plants, which leave their imprints in mud and clay as it hardens into shale stone.

In later years when the bog is drained, the peat can be dug out and used as fuel.

Scottish peat bogs hold three-quarters of all the carbon in British ecosystems - equivalent to around a century of emissions from fossil fuel burning.

Other natural resources to be found in Belarus include peat deposits, small quantities of oil and natural gas, granite, dolomitic limestone, marl, chalk, sand, gravel, and clay.

The researchers measured the retreat of the permafrost border byobserving hummocks known as "palsas, " which form naturally over icecontained in the soil of northern peat bogs.

In Riau, even beside main roads there are bleak, blackened landscapes, shrouded in white smoke, where the peat soil still smoulders under charred tree-stumps.

One approach might be to encourage uses of marshland that do not desiccate the peat—for example, growing moisture-loving rubber trees rather than oil palms, which need dry soils.

There is probably some double-counting in the two sets of figures, because many peat bogs are found in forests, and are thus drained as those forests are cleared.

Some of the most beautiful areas of England are releasing millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year because of damage to peat bogs, environment watchdogs have warned.

"Scotch whisky (this spelling is also used by Canadians) is usually somewhat light in body, with a distinctive smoky malt flavour; it is made primarily from malted barley that has been heated over a peat fire, fermented, distilled, and blended with similar whiskies made by different distillers."