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Figure 2
a. An artesian blister wetland, Loboi Plain, Kenya.
b. Water under a hydraulic head flows continuously up a fracture. The water supports lush wetland vegetation that traps surface and air borne sediment.
c. The mound builds up to the level of the local piezometric surface.

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