Moorschlenken

English translation: bog hollows

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German term or phrase:Moorschlenken
English translation:bog hollows
Entered by: monbuckland

11:21 Mar 31, 2010
German to English translations [PRO]
Geography / Landscape
German term or phrase: Moorschlenken
"Neben hochgewölbten Hochmoorbülten glitzert das Wasser der Moorschlenken."
Are these puddles, or is there a more accurate term for them?
monbuckland
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:05
bog hollows
Explanation:
The photos were made on several fieldtrips to bogs and moors (both fens and ... U. stygia): shallow water-logged depressions, mud bottoms (“Schlenken”), ...
icps.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=europe&action=display.

65, bog hollow, tourbi re basse (Schlenken).

www.corif.net/site/_fichiers/telechargements/DicOrnithoEnFr...
BOG HOLLOWS (SCHLENKEN). Scheuchzerietalia palustris p. ... 1980, Doyle and Moore, 1978; Dierssen, 1978; Tiixen, 1978;. Heal and Smith, 1978; Currie, 1979; ...

skos:narrower, <http://linkeddata.ge.imati.cnr.it:2020/resource/habitat/Euni... skos:prefLabel, Raised bog hollows (schlenken) (en) ...
linkeddata.ge.imati.cnr.it:2020/.../habitat%2FEunisHabitat2006%2FD1.112

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Note added at 12 mins (2010-03-31 11:34:06 GMT)
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pools or hollows

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Selected response from:

Norbert Hermann
Local time: 04:05
Grading comment
Thank you. Hummocks and hollows it is.
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3 +5bog hollows
Norbert Hermann


  

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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +5
bog hollows


Explanation:
The photos were made on several fieldtrips to bogs and moors (both fens and ... U. stygia): shallow water-logged depressions, mud bottoms (“Schlenken”), ...
icps.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=europe&action=display.

65, bog hollow, tourbi re basse (Schlenken).

www.corif.net/site/_fichiers/telechargements/DicOrnithoEnFr...
BOG HOLLOWS (SCHLENKEN). Scheuchzerietalia palustris p. ... 1980, Doyle and Moore, 1978; Dierssen, 1978; Tiixen, 1978;. Heal and Smith, 1978; Currie, 1979; ...

skos:narrower, <http://linkeddata.ge.imati.cnr.it:2020/resource/habitat/Euni... skos:prefLabel, Raised bog hollows (schlenken) (en) ...
linkeddata.ge.imati.cnr.it:2020/.../habitat%2FEunisHabitat2006%2FD1.112

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Note added at 12 mins (2010-03-31 11:34:06 GMT)
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pools or hollows

http://www.springerlink.com/content/x7536t6183n34472/

Norbert Hermann
Local time: 04:05
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you. Hummocks and hollows it is.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Bernd Runge: Genau, da ein Bult-Schlenken-Komplex ein hummock hollow complex ist.
36 mins

agree  Inge Meinzer
1 hr

agree  Reinhold Wehrmann
2 hrs

agree  Rebecca Garber
2 hrs

agree  Rolf Keiser
5 hrs
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