Bog pond
A bog pond (
mires
(Durchströmungsmooren). It is also called a bog pool, bog eye, raised bog kolk, bog kolk or just kolk.
Bog ponds owe their existence to the growth of the bog body and are thus of biogenic origin.
Brown bog ponds are surrounded by peat and receive their water exclusively from precipitation or from the large rain storage capacity of raised bogs. Such kolks generally represent the non-evaporating excess water of a bog. The central waterbody of these bogs exhibit almost no sedimentation.[why?]
The accumulation of nutrients can lead to the formation of
dystrophic
).
Literature
- Fritz Overbeck: Botanisch-geologische Moorkunde. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Moore Nordwestdeutschlands als Quellen zur Vegetations-, Klima- und Siedlungsgeschichte. Wachholtz, Neumunster, 1975, ISBN 3-529-06150-6.
- ISBN 3-87144-954-7.