A bog formed over water or soft mud, which shakes underfoot.
(形成于水面或软泥上的)颤沼,跳动沼
Example sentencesExamples
The greater part was a heathy moor, full of quaking bogs, some of them extending ten and fifteen miles, and intersected with rapid mountain torrents, such as the rivers of Thurso, Halladale, Dunbeath, and Berriedale.
The world's largest known quaking bog found on a barrier beach is in the Shank Painter Pond system in Provincetown.
The environment in which the microorganisms live changes from mesotrophic in the infra-aquatic peat-bog and initional quaking bog formations to oligotrophic and very acid in the real quaking bog and initional peat-moor formations.
He pointed out the Dun Dyke, a raised rib of firm ground which ran across quaking bog.
Now, it is the only quaking bog with an open-water center in Illinois, with about half an acre of open water remaining.
Definition of quaking bog in US English:
quaking bog
noun
A bog formed over water or soft mud, which shakes underfoot.
(形成于水面或软泥上的)颤沼,跳动沼
Example sentencesExamples
The world's largest known quaking bog found on a barrier beach is in the Shank Painter Pond system in Provincetown.
The greater part was a heathy moor, full of quaking bogs, some of them extending ten and fifteen miles, and intersected with rapid mountain torrents, such as the rivers of Thurso, Halladale, Dunbeath, and Berriedale.
Now, it is the only quaking bog with an open-water center in Illinois, with about half an acre of open water remaining.
The environment in which the microorganisms live changes from mesotrophic in the infra-aquatic peat-bog and initional quaking bog formations to oligotrophic and very acid in the real quaking bog and initional peat-moor formations.
He pointed out the Dun Dyke, a raised rib of firm ground which ran across quaking bog.