Robert H. Meade

World-Wide Delivery of River Sediment to the Oceans

New data and new estimates from old data show that rivers with large sediment loads (annual discharges greater than about

Sources, Sinks, and Storage of River Sediment in the Atlantic Drainage of the United States

15 \times 10^{6}

Landward Transport of Bottom Sediments in Estuaries of the Atlantic Coastal Plain

tons) contribute about

First-Cycle Quartz Arenites in the Orinoco River Basin, Venezuela and Colombia

7 \times 10^{9}

Sediment loads in the Amazon River

tons of suspended sediment to the ocean yearly. Extrapolating available data for all drainage basins, the total suspended sediment delivered by all rivers to the oceans is about