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Transporte de sedimentos no rio Amazonas

Summary

From new data on the sediment in the Amazon River, we estimate the mean annual load of suspended sediment at Óbidos, Brazil, to be 0.8-0.9x109 tonnes per year. Most of this sediment is discharged onto the continental shelf.

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