Pressure variations in peat as a result of gas bubble dynamics

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2599-2605

  Kellner, Erik ^a   Price, Jonathan S ^b   Waddington, J M ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FLOW OF WATER; METHANE; PEAT; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SOILS; TRANSDUCERS;

CLOGGING PORES; GAS BUBBLES; HIGH PRESSURE; PIEZOMETERS;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS);

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC HEAD; PEAT; PORE PRESSURE; POREWATER;

EID: 4644296254     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.5650     Document Type: Article

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