• Nagarjuna [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Does that mean that a marsh can be a fen or a mire depending on acidity?

    • Abraxiel
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      3 years ago

      No, marshes are seperate from bogs and fens, forming at the edges of bodies of water, rivers, or in tidal areas and subject to periodic inundation. A bog or fen is an independent pool, fed by precipitation or surface and groundwater respectively, which forms a bed of peat.

      I don't think mire is a classification in this sytem.

  • RandyLahey [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    and in that bog there was some acid

    rare acid, a rattlin acid

    and the branch and the tree and the tree and the acid and the acid and the bog and the bog down in the valley-o

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Yes, but usually less well since the conditions are slightly more aerobic due to water inflow.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    3 years ago

    I always learned it this way:

    • Marshes have water flowing both in and out with grassy vegetation

    • Swamps have water flowing both in and out with trees

    • Fens have water flowing in but not out (evaporation keeps it balanced)

    • Bogs do not drain and have nothing draining into them

    "A fen is fed; a bog is not."

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      I'm used to most swamps/marshes being sparse low mangroves and scrubland so it wasnt immediately apparent.

  • MorelaakIsBack [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    brb gotta go take my bog and drop it on top of a fen to make a big fucking bomb that will finally end capitalism

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      You would just make a less acidic bog or a less basic fen

  • UlyssesT
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    18 days ago

    deleted by creator

  • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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    edit-2
    3 years ago

    What's the difference between a mire and a quagmire? The latter always involves the American military. 🥁

  • Abraxiel
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    3 years ago

    further reading: https://www.epa.gov/wetlands/classification-and-types-wetlands#undefined