bogslide

plural bogslides

1. A rapid movement of saturated peat in (or from and moving out of) a bog, similar to a landslide or mudslide.

   [...] indiscriminate cutting had caused, and was calculated to cause, waste and bogslides, and thereby to injure and ultimately destroy the bog.

   1913, The Irish Reports: Containing Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeal, the High Court of Justice, the Court of Bankruptcy, in Ireland, and the Irish Land Commission, page 8

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   There is a reference to bogslides in the letter in the Morning Post, and it is possible that a slide on Knocklayd, which has a ring of peat-covered land around its crest, may have inspired some ingenious wit.

   1921, The Irish Naturalist, page 85

   […] peatlands/moors are dynamic environments, subject to rapid change (bogslides) and excavation is extremely difficult/ hazardous due the collapse of the sidewalls and water ingress. The location and diggability of peat have resulted in peatlands being the focus of searches for items of forensic interest[…]

   2018 October 24, Pier Matteo Barone, W. J. Mike Groen, Multidisciplinary Approaches to Forensic Archaeology: Topics discussed during the European Meetings on Forensic Archaeology (EMFA), Springer, →ISBN, page 63