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Science 30 June 1967:
Vol. 156. no. 3783, pp. 1734 - 1737
DOI: 10.1126/science.156.3783.1734
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Amazon River: Environmental Factors That Control Its Dissolved and Suspended Load

Ronald J. Gibbs 1

1 Department of Geology, University of California, Los Angeles 90024

Analytical results of sampling during both wet and dry seasons along the Amazon River, at its mouth, and from 16 tributaries reveal that the physical weathering dominant in the Andean mountainous environment controls both the overall composition of the suspended solids discharged by the Amazon and the amount of dissolved salts and suspended solids discharged.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Some recent Brazilian studies in fluvial geomorphology.
A. Christofoletti and A. Christofoletti (1980)
Progress in Physical Geography 4, 414-420
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