quaking bog

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English

Noun

quaking bog (plural quaking bogs)

  1. A type of floating bog in which vegetation forms a floating mat on the surface of water or above very wet peat, which moves (or quakes) when walked upon.
    • 1821, Sir Richard Phillips, The Hundred Wonders of the World: And of the Three Kingdoms of Nature, Described According to the Latest and Best Authorities, page 235:
      The turf hardens by degrees , but is still stringy when broken, and at length becomes the red turf employed as fuel. The production of the quaking bogs is as follows : []
    • 2020 December 15, Melanie Giles, Bog bodies: Face to face with the past, Manchester University Press, →ISBN:
      [] the naturalists attribute this mysterious movement to the isostatic dynamics of the quaking bog itself: their very footfall has created a rippling dynamic through the liquidity of the peat, which disturbed the distant vegetation. Yet even for these scientists, as Meredith (2002: 319) notes, this sense of an animate []