"peat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The peat layer is only a few tens of centimetres high.
- The peat layer is up to almost 6 metres thick in places.
- Established strand swamps with a large amount of vegetation have deep peat layers.
- These deep peat layers can serve as a wick to draw water from underground into the swamp during droughts.
- On western moors the peat layer may be several metres thick.
- The agricultural land use will never restore the carbon permanently in the ecosystem equal to the original peat layers.
- The dry conditions encourage the mineralisation of the peat layers and enable woods to develop.
- About 15 million years ago, these plants died out and formed a peat layer up to 270 meters thick.
- He said that if the original pilings "had gone through the peat layer, I don't think we would have had a problem."
- Also the abbey did not permit the excavation of the peat layer on its lands.
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