Irish Bog Oak

Palaeovolcanic forcing of short-term dendroisotopic depletion: The effect of decreased solar intensity on Irish Oak

[1] The climatic effects of historical volcanic eruptions are well documented in the literature. What are less certain however, are the effects of eruptions on more distant environments, particularly vegetation. Here we present subannual dC records from two high-resolution Irish oak (Quercus spp.) chronologies that span the Laki (Grı́msvötn) 1783–84 and Tambora 1815 eruptions. In both instances,...

Some bog denizens

Bog. interface-//Culture

reemphasized a classic issue within political and cultural theory – the relationship between individual human agency and social structure: to what extent do local actions reproduce or transform global structures? Several early accounts of the internet expressed high hopes, not least, regarding its participatory potential and transformative capacity. Could clicks cumulatively change the world? –...

Greenhouse gases German bog

Environmental controls of greenhouse gas release in a restoring peat bog in NW Germany S. Glatzel, I. Forbrich, C. Krüger, S. Lemke, and G. Gerold University of Rostock, Institute for the Management of Rural Areas, Landscape Ecology and Land Evaluation, Justus von Liebig Weg 6, 18059 Rostock, Germany Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald, Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, Grimmer S...

European Bog Bodies: From the Iron Age Peat Bog to the 21st Century

Well preserved bodies dating from the prehistoric era to the 19th century have been found across northwestern Europe; specifically in the peat bogs of Ireland, Great Britain and Denmark. These discoveries were especially prevalent in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when mass peat extraction was at its height. Many of these finds have been dated to the Iron Age and have previously been at...