Landform classification and vegetation-soil relationships of southern Ontario wetlands / Elizabeth A. Snell.
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TextPublication details: Guelph, ON : University of Guelph, 1976.Description: vi, 164 leaves : ill. , map ; 28 cmOnline resources: Abstract: The wetlands of southern Ontario were classified on the basis of landform characteristics following an investigation of a variety of undisturbed wetlands. Upon the consideration of various orders and combinations of differentiating characteristics, a classification was formed. It is based on three classes of the topography in which the wetland is set: a) flat (less than 2% slope), b) hilly without an outlet for the wetland, and c) hilly with an outlet; on three lake classes: a)lake area greater than that of the wetland, b) lake area smaller than the wetland, and c) no lake associated with the wetland; on six river classes: a) levee, b) fluvial, c) floodplain, d) source, 3) other, and f) no river associated with the wetland; and two substratum permeability classes: a) permeable, and b) impermeable. This classification was found to lead directly to four hydrologic types of wetland: a) discharge, b)seepage, c) seepage- catchement, and d) catchment.
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Thesis(M.Sc.)--University of Guelph, 1976.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 129-138).
The wetlands of southern Ontario were classified on the basis of landform characteristics following an investigation of a variety of undisturbed wetlands. Upon the consideration of various orders and combinations of differentiating characteristics, a classification was formed. It is based on three classes of the topography in which the wetland is set: a) flat (less than 2% slope), b) hilly without an outlet for the wetland, and c) hilly with an outlet; on three lake classes: a)lake area greater than that of the wetland, b) lake area smaller than the wetland, and c) no lake associated with the wetland; on six river classes: a) levee, b) fluvial, c) floodplain, d) source, 3) other, and f) no river associated with the wetland; and two substratum permeability classes: a) permeable, and b) impermeable. This classification was found to lead directly to four hydrologic types of wetland: a) discharge, b)seepage, c) seepage- catchement, and d) catchment.