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Sphagnum Valley (54°16′S 36°35′W / 54.267°S 36.583°W / -54.267; -36.583) is a valley sloping northwest from Echo Pass to Cumberland West Bay, South Georgia. First charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Nordenskjold, 1901–04. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951-57 and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Sphagnum, the bog moss which occurs in this valley.

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Sphagnum Valley

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Sphagnum Valley (54°16′S 36°35′W / 54.267°S 36.583°W / -54.267; -36.583) is a valley sloping northwest from Echo Pass to Cumberland West Bay, South...

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Sphagnum

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Sphagnum is a genus of approximately 380 accepted species of mosses, commonly known as sphagnum moss, also bog moss and quacker moss (although that term...

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Bog

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accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials – often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main types of wetlands. Other names for bogs...

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Junction Valley

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summit of this valley was later named Echo Pass. The original name has therefore been restricted to the eastern valley, and Sphagnum Valley has been applied...

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Valbona Valley

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various species of narthecium, carex and sphagnum can be found. The steep slopes and ravines of the Valbona Valley are home to communities of largeleaf linden...

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Peat

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unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs. Sphagnum moss, also called peat moss, is one of the most common components in peat...

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John William Hotson

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Raymond residents gather sphagnum moss for bandages for soldiers on June 16, 1918". HistoryLink.org. Retrieved 2024-01-28. "Yakima Valley Apple Orchards". Washington...

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Dolly Sods Wilderness

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grassy meadows created in the last century by logging and fires, and sphagnum bogs that are much older. To the south, a dense cove forest occupies the...

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Upper Goyt Valley

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crowberry, cowberry and cross-leaved heath. Hare’s-tail cottongrass and sphagnum moss are common along the Shining Tor ridge. The area is important for...

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Dark Peak

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uninhabited moorland plateaux where almost any depression is filled with sphagnum bogs and black peat. The High Peak is an alternative name for the Dark...

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Bleaklow

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eroded peat gulleys as part of major schemes to re-wet and restore healthy Sphagnum moss communities which are essential for peat formation, carbon capture...

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Bryophyte

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antifeedants which protect them from being eaten by slugs. When Phythium sphagnum is sprinkled on the soil of germinating seeds, it inhibits growth of "damping...

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Adirondack Mountains

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Pickerel weed often forms large colonies. bogs, characterized by plants like sphagnum moss, orchids, and pitcher plants. Breeding birds include northern forest...

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Maianthemum trifolium

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(Siberia). Maianthemum trifolium often forms dense patches in wet forests, sphagnum bogs and other wetlands and is sometimes considered to be aquatic. plants...

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Alden Valley

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some areas to reduce the free flow of water across the moorland surface. Sphagnum moss has been introduced in the newly rewetted areas, which will help to...

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Pennines

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topsoil is so acidic, pH 2 to 4, that it can grow only bracken, heather, sphagnum, and coarse grasses such as cottongrass, purple moor grass and heath rush...

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Carbajal Valley

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ago), forest growth was expanding. The nearly U-shaped valley floor is covered with Sphagnum peat bogs and poorly drained mires. Menounos et al. 2013...

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Saddleworth Moor

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covers much of the moor. Cottongrass is the most dominant feature but sphagnum mosses are scarce. Heather, crowberry, bilberry and the rare cloudberry...

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Pendle Hill

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boulder clay dating from the last ice age. The historic decomposition of sphagnum moss on the hill has led to it being covered in peat. The steep slopes...

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Mer Bleue Bog

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eastern suburb of Ottawa in Eastern Ontario, Canada. Its main feature is a sphagnum bog that is situated in an ancient channel of the Ottawa River and is a...

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North York Moors

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permeable to water, impeding drainage and encouraging the formation of bogs. Sphagnum moss bogs are common where there is abundant rain and poor drainage. Cotton...

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Peak District

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vaginatum) dominate the high moors. After decades of decline due to pollution, Sphagnum mosses are returning, with species such as S. cuspidatum particularly dominant...

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Vermiculite

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chemical compound of variable Na2O/SiO2 ratio precursor of waterglass Sphagnum – Genus of mosses, peat moss Square foot gardening – Method of divided...

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High Fens

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Belgium covered with alpine sphagnum raised bogs (not "fens" as the name would imply) both on the plateau and in the valley basin; the bogs, which are...

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Dartmoor

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and Common Tormentil, with Sphagnum thriving in the wettest patches. The valley bogs have lush growth of rushes, with sphagnum, cross-leaved heath, sundews...

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Mires in the British National Vegetation Classification system

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Sphagnum recurvum mire M5 Carex rostrata - Sphagnum squarrosum mire M6 Carex echinata - Sphagnum recurva/auriculatum mire M7 Carex curta - Sphagnum russowii...

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Topiary

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which remains as a permanent trimming guide, may be either stuffed with sphagnum moss and then planted, or placed around shrubbery. The sculpture slowly...

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Widecombe in the Moor

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after the First World War to thank the villagers for supplying troops with sphagnum moss. This grows in abundance in the damp Dartmoor conditions, and is said...

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