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TABLE 1 
Suspended Sediment Discharge to Ocean by Some Major Rivers 
River 
Yellow 
Ganges 
Bramaputra 
Yangtze 
Indus 
Amazon 
Mississippi 
Irrarvaddy 
Mekong 
Colorado 
Red 
Source. 
Location 
China 
India 
East Pakistan 
China 
West Pakistan 
Brazil 
USA 
Burma 
Thailand 
USA 
North Vietnam 
Sed 
(10 
Total 
From Stanley and Swift (1976). 
an 
Annual 
ent Discharge 
short tons) 
2.08 
1.60 
-80 
55 
-48 
-40 
.34 
33 
19 
15 
La! 
7.06 
Percentage 
of World 
Total 
10.0 
8.0 
4.0 
2.7 
2.4 
2.0 
1.7 
1.7 
8 
-/ 
-6 
34.6 
