Importance of shrinkage and compression in determining water storage changes in peat: The case of a mined peatland

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 13, Issue 16 SPEC. ISS., 1999, Pages 2591-2601

  Price, Jonathan S ^a   Schlotzhauer, Susanne M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compression; Peat; Shrinkage; Storage change; Storativity; Subsidence

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MINING; PEAT; SHRINKAGE; SUBSIDENCE;

WATER TABLE;

HYDROLOGY;

COMPRESSION; PEAT; SHRINKAGE; SUBSIDENCE; WATER CONTENT;

CANADA;

EID: 0033394553     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(199911)13:16<2591::AID-HYP933>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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