[SLOVENSKO]
Lovrenska jezera (The marsh of Lovrence
- lakes of Lovrence) are the largest high peat swampland in Slovenia.
The swampland is divided into two parts with a narrow part of the forest.
The main characteristic of this marshiness area are 20 lakes, which
actually are not real lakes but depressions in a rock, which were covered
by water. The marshiness area is located on the mountain ridge (altitude
of 1520 m ~ 5000 ft.). The moore is a 'mineral' swampland and was the
result of the rolling hill country with the impermeable geological grounding.
The name 'high moore' is not beacuse of the altitude but of the slow
and progressive lading of the peat.The
swampland developed here about 8000 years ago, after the Ice Ages. The
area has no contact with groundwater and it is fed by precipitations
alone. The depth of the lakes is about 1 m and the layer of the peat
is about 3 m thick in the central part of the moor.
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