CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF RIVERS AND LAKES 



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Table 49. — Analyses of water from India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan 

 [Analyses C-E In milligrams per liter; all otjier analyses In parts per million] 



Salt Lake, Calcutta. Analysis from Bose (1940, p. 7). 



Raw Ganges water, Calcutta, during a time when marine salt was absent. 



Bose (1940, p. 8). 

 Maimana Late, Afghanistan. This and the following two analyses are from a 



certified copy, provided by Afghanistan Geol. Survey report on the 



Salt Sources of Afghanistan prepared by E. R. Gee of the Qeol. Survey of 



India in 1940, 



D. Brine from Namaksar (salt Held), Herat, Afghanistan. 



E. Brine from natural pools, Tashkurghan, Afghanistan. 



F. Chenab at Kanki, Pakistan, Dec. 1959. This and the following 2 analyses are 



from unpublished data provided by the Geol. Survey of Pakistan. 



G. Ravi at Chicha Watni, Pakistan, Mar. 1959. 

 H. Indus at Mithankof Chachran, Mar. 1959. 



Table 50. — Analyses, in milligrams per liter, of water from Iran and Turkey 

 [ Data for waters from Iran, analyses A-M are from Lofller (1956); analyses N-0 are from unpublished data of the Tehran Water Board. Analysis P is from Tulus (1944, p. 61)] 



A. Niris Lake at Khan-e-Kat. July 11, 1949. 



B. Nargis Lake opposite the mouth of the Gomun. July 23, 1949. 



C. Nargis Lake at the mouth of the Gomun. July 23, 1949. 



D. Nargis Lake west of the mouth of the Gomun. July 23, 1949 



E. Niris Inflow at Khan-e-Kat. July 11, 1949. 



F. Nargis inflow just above the mouth. July 23, 1949. 



G. Spring Lake, Gomun. July 22, 1949. 



H. Maharlu Lake at Dubaneh. July 16, 1949. 



I. Maharlu Lake at Naharlu. July 15, 1949. 



J. Kerman-Kanat north of Kerman. Apr. 20, 1950. 



K. Urmia Lake at Bender Danalu. Oct. 10, 1949. 



L. Urmia Lake, southwest coast by the salt gardens. Aug. 1949. 



M. Kurusch-Gol. Oct. 14, 1949. 



N. Kara] River at Tehran, maximum. 



O. Karaj River at Tehran, minimum. 



P. Lake Van, Turkey. 



and dilute enough to be of economic importance. 

 Much of the continent must be characterized by water 

 more or less like that which gradually evaporated from 

 the Lake Eyre basin during 1950 and 1951 (table 57, 

 analyses K-N). The high sodium chloride content of 

 waters of interior Australia has been interpreted to 



mean that meteoric salt is a very important source of 

 the dissolved material. It could be as easily explained 

 by the precipitation of less soluble salts in closed basins, 

 or, for Lake Eyre, by the solution of sodium chloride 

 that had been precipitated in the drainage basin during 

 the many years when rainfall was insufficient to permit 



