Title
Transport of suspended sediment and dissolved material from the andes to the rio de la plata by the bolivian tributaries of the rio paraguay (rios pilcomayo and bermejo)
Other title
Transport de matières dissoutes et particulaires des andes vers le rio de la plata par les tributaires boliviens (rios pilcomayo et bermejo) du rio paraguay
Date Issued
01 January 1990
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Office of Scientific and Technical Research Overseas
Abstract
The data collected from 13 gaugingstations in the SENAMHI and ENDE networks (between 1975 and 1983), permit estimations of the suspended sediment and dissolved material yields in the Andean drainage basins of the Pilcomayo and Bermejo rivers, tributaries ofthe Rio Paraguay. In Bolivia, results from the Rio Pilcomayo drainage basin show that the greatest part of the transport from thebasin consists of suspended sediment (90%).The sediment yield measured attheAndean exit of the Rio Pilcomayo (80 × 106 t year−1) is of the same order of size as that observed 2000km downstream in the Middle Parana. © 1990 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
Start page
653
End page
665
Volume
35
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Oceanografía, Hidrología, Recursos hídricos
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0025090450
Source
Hydrological Sciences Journal
ISSN of the container
02626667
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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