How to use in-sentence of “peat”:
+ There is peat in the island’s wet areas.
+ About 62% of the world’s tropical peat lands occur in southeast Asia.
+ Fens have been damaged in the past by land drainage, and also by peat cutting.
+ Since the 1970s, peat swamp forest deforestation and drainage have increased greatly.
+ This is in conjunction with the environment for Wales act and mentions that they are introducing agricultural grading to their land to ensure it returns its essential nutrients and increasing peat productions.
Example sentences of “peat”:
+ So, the amount of peat increases.
+ Though these lands were lower than the peat fens before the peat shrinkage began, the more stable silt soils were reclaimed by medieval farmers and embanked against any floods coming down from the peat areas or from the sea.
+ So, the amount of peat increases.
+ Though these lands were lower than the peat fens before the peat shrinkage began, the more stable silt soils were reclaimed by medieval farmers and embanked against any floods coming down from the peat areas or from the sea.
+ This kind of climate and geography has no exact parallel today, but the peat swamp forests in Indonesia and Malaysia, the Amazon Basin, the Mississippi River system and the Okefenokee swamp give some idea.
+ A “bog” is a wetland where peat builds up.
+ When dry, it can be a major fire hazard, as peat fires can burn almost indefinitely.
+ The plant material gets buried as a peat bog.
+ The amount of carbon released from peat and forest fires in Indonesia during 1997.
+ Lamèque’s economy is tied to the fishing and peat industries.
+ An important crop is cranberries which is grown on the peat bogs.
+ The extent and nature of tropical peat swamps.
+ Colossal peat bog discovered in Congo.
+ With the exception of the south east, the island is very flat, and covered with a patchwork of peat bogs, low hills and lochs, with more than half the land being covered by water.
+ The Carboniferous is named after the “coal measures”, the remains of peat formed by dense tropical wetland forests.
+ Where peat had to be travelled on, the plan was to lay down matting.
+ Although peat has many uses for humans, it also presents problems.
+ The peat in the world’s peatlands has been forming for 360million years and contains 550 Gigatonnes of carbon.