blanket peat
Application of ground-penetrating radar to the identification of subsurface piping in blanket peat
... of blanket peat catchments, groundwater flow models have frequently been applied ...deep blanket peat catchments using GPR suggests that pipes branch out, undulate, and that braided networks ...
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Infiltration, runoff and sediment production in blanket peat catchments: implications of field rainfall simulation experiments
... bare peat are slightly greater than for vegetated ...bare peat is slightly less than for Eriophorum or Calluna ...into peat below a Sphagnum cover appears to be lower than for other vegetation types, ...
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Laboratory experiments on drought and runoff in blanket peat
... 24 peat blocks before ...the peat becomes saturated to the surface, even under gentle rain, then overland flow is likely to be produced, no matter how intense the rain, as long as there is enough water to ...
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Controls of soil pipe frequency in upland blanket peat
... controlling blanket peat pipe frequency. I propose that peat structural properties inherited from the way a blanket peat develops on a hillslope strongly control pipe network ...in ...
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Runoff production in blanket peat covered catchments
... plots from greater than 50 cm depth to the base of the peat. These data provide important quantitative evidence for the relative importance of surface and near-surface flow processes in blanket peat. ...
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Impact of prescribed burning on blanket peat hydrology
... on blanket peat hydrology is shown in Figure ...in blanket peat catchments which have undergone prescribed patch burning do behave differently to those in unburnt ...where peat ...
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Hydraulic conductivity in upland blanket peat: measurement and variability
... in blanket peat are generally an order of magnitude lower than those measured in the Somerset Levels (Baird and Gaffney, ...for blanket peats ranging from ...House blanket peats mean k* ...
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The dynamics of natural pipe hydrological behaviour in blanket peat
... Hydrographs and precipitation for the sampled pipes and stream in the Cottage Hill Sike catchment for an example storm starting on 30 April 2008.. Note the difference in the y-axis scale[r] ...
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Fire decreases near-surface hydraulic conductivity and macropore flow in blanket peat
... Synergistic effects of water repellency and macropore flow on the hydraulic conductivity of a burned forest soil, south-east Australia Hydrological Processes 24: 2871-2887.. Evolution of[r] ...
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Morphological change of natural pipe outlets in blanket peat
... Pipe shape category Circular Mean floor depth, cm % of pipes ephemeral % of pipes perennial.. Vertically-lenticular mean floor depth, cm % of pipes ephemeral % of pipes perennial.[r] ...
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Wind Farms and Blanket Peat a report on the Derrybrien bog slide
... perennial peat pipes, whose catchment areas are thus substantially increased, and suggested that this phenomenon might substantially reduce peat stability where drains run transverse to the slope and where ...
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Peat initiation in the Faroe Islands: climate change, pedogenesis, or human impact?
... of blanket peat extends across a wide valley, glacial in origin, around Sto´ravatn and Lı´tlavatn (literally ‘large lake’ and ‘small ...of peat cutting in the past, but today the valley and ...
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Hydrological hotspots in blanket peatlands: Spatial variation in peat permeability around a natural soil pipe
... Blanket peat occurs on poorly-drained and gently-sloping terrain, usually in cool, oceanic areas such as the Pacific coast of Alaska, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Patagonia, the British Isles, Hokkaido, and ...
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Paleoenvironmental analysis of the Mangere Formation, Mangere Island, Chatham Islands, New Zealand : a thesis submitted in Earth Science for the degree of Master of Science at Massey University
... The largest island is C hatham Island , over 50% of which is covered in blanket peat, followed in order of decreas ing size by Pitt Island , South East Island, and Mangere Is la nd the o[r] ...
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Late Holocene regime shifts in moorland ecosystems : high resolution data from the Pennines, UK
... Most existing analyses, however, either derive from lakes with a regional pollen source area reflecting catchment-scale trends rather than community-level patterns, or focus on ‘degraded’ communities, such as eroding ...
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Peat Bog Ecosystems: Weathering, Erosion and Mass Movement of Blanket Bog
... Blanket peat development is all the more remarkable, therefore, given that undisturbed peat generally has a water content by weight of between 90% to 98% - in other words, far less solids than milk - ...
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Peat initiation in the Faroe Islands : climate change, pedogenesis or human impact?
... of peat initiation and development in areas outside the Faroes. Blanket peat initiation has clearly occurred in the Faroes without human intervention, a result which is significant given that many ...
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Peat Bog Ecosystems: Commercial peat extraction
... of blanket peat accumulation can be less than half that of raised bogs, while the accumulated peat deposit is invariably much thinner and so the resource may be exhausted much ...
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Modelling impacts of agricultural practice on flood peaks in upland catchments: An application of the distributed TOPMODEL
... in peat catchments, such as evapotranspiration, interception and water-table ...on blanket peat these effects could be minor and here we have considered peak flows during storm events as our ...the ...
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Coupled Water and Heat Transfer in Permafrost Modeling
... Mineral earth hummocks occur throughout the study basin, covering between 30% and 70% of hillslope surfaces (reference). Their diameters range between 0.4 and 1 m, with their crests rising 0.1 to 0.4 m above the ...
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