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nature's refusal to decompose, hoarding centuries like a damp, acidic memory bank
means A wet, spongy area of waterlogged ground, typically acidic and rich in decaying plant matter that forms peat.
from From Irish and Scottish Gaelic 'bogach,' meaning soft or marshy ground, rooted in 'bog,' the Gaelic word for soft itself. English borrowed it in the 16th century, dragging the squelch of the Celtic landscape along with it.
- perfect preservation
- acid and lack of oxygen mummify bodies for millennia
- bog butter
- people buried butter in bogs, still edible centuries later
- carbon vault
- peatlands store twice the carbon of all forests
- slow growth
- peat accumulates roughly one millimeter per year
- tollund man
- a 2,400-year-old face survived with skin intact
for instance
everglades — 1.5 million acre subtropical bog in florida, usa spanning 6,000 square miles
great dismal swamp — 750,000 acre bog straddling virginia and north carolina since the pleistocene
siberian peat bogs — largest bog system on earth covering 1.4 million square kilometers in russia, holding twice the carbon of all forests