Hummock
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In geology, a hummock is a small knoll or mound above ground. They are typically less than 15 meters in height and tend to appear in groups or fields. Large landslide avalanches that typically occur i
Earth hummocks in England
Ice hummocks
Cryogenic earth hummocks on Mount Kenya
Cryogenic earth hummocks on the Olmflya plateau, Norway
Raised bog
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Raised bogs, also called ombrotrophic bogs, are acidic, wet habitats that are poor in mineral salts and are home to flora and fauna that can cope with such extreme conditions. Raised bogs, unlike fens
Hummock
…and temperature at a later period. Hummocks in the shape of low ridges of drier peat moss typically form part of the structure of certain types of raised bog, such as plateau, kermi, palsa or string bog. The hummocks alternate with shallow wet depressions or flarks. Swamp hummocks are mounds typically initiated…
Ewiges Meer Nature Reserve, raised bog element of the remains of a bog in East Frisia
Peat moss floating mat on a silted-up raised bog kolk
Layering of a raised bog: plant remains, white peat and black peat (from the top)
A raised bog called Punassuo ("Red Bog") in Teijo National Park, Finland