SEDL / STP / STP820-EB / STP37340S

Undisturbed Sampling of Peat

Landva, AO
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Pheeney, PE
Jacques Whitford & Associates Ltd., Fredericton, New Brunswick

Mersereau, DE
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Pages: 16    Published: Jan 1983

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Abstract

Two samples developed at the University of New Brunswick for sampling of peat are described. One is a 100-mm-diameter piston sampler with a Plexiglas insert sample holder and the other is a 250-mm-square block sampler. The samplers have been extensively tested and used in Sphagnum and sedge peat and have also been used successfully in soft-to-almost-fluid organic diatomaceous soils.