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Dedication
The Groundwater Project Foreword
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
2.1 Hydrogeomorphic Setting and the Categorization of Peatland Systems
2.2 Swamps
2.3 Fens
2.4 Bogs
2.5 Peatland Complexes
2.6 Regional Processes
3.1 Saturated Zone Properties and Processes
3.2 Unsaturated Zone Properties and Processes
4.1 Transport in Peat
4.2 Transport in Peatlands
5.1 Atmospheric Pollutants as Contaminant Sources
5.2 Direct Pollutants as Contaminant Sources
5.3 Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids (NAPLs)
6.1 Peatland Drainage
6.2 Peat Harvesting and Restoration
6.3 Climate Change
6.4 Peatland Wildfires
7.1 Numerical Flow and Transport Models
7.2 Challenges of Numerical Modeling
8.1 Well and Piezometer Installation and Use
8.2 Sampling Peat
8.3 Parameterization of Peat
Exercise 1 - Determining Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity of Peat Using the Hvorslev Method
Exercise 2 - Calculating Water and Solute Flux from a Peat Deposit with Weak Depth Dependent Hydraulic Conductivity
Exercise 3 - Calculating Water and Solute Flux with More Dramatic Decline in Hydraulic Conductivity
Exercise 4 - Changing Thermal Properties of Peat as it Thaws
Exercise 5 - Effect of Moisture Content on Thaw
Box 1 - Height of Domed Peatlands
Box 2 - Permafrost Peatlands
Box 3 - Tropical Peatland Hydrology
Box 4- Van Genuchten-Mualem (VGM) Variables and Parameters
Box 5 - Mobile Water Porosity and Solute Transport
Box 6 - Mercury in Peatlands
Solution Exercise 1
Solution to Exercise 2
Solution to Exercise 3
Solution to Exercise 4
Solution to Exercise 5
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