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Sediment characteristics of Tennessee streams and reservoirs

U.S. Geological Survey, Open File Report 84-749

by S.W. Trimble and W.P. Carey


Table of Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Description of additional data

Acknowledgments

Methods of analysis

Reservoir data

Methods of calculating trap efficiency

Reservoir calculations

Suspended sediment data

Relative quality of transport relations

Suspended sediment transport

Physical characteristics

Transport characteristics

Sediment yield

Sediment yield from reservoir calculations

Average annual sediment concentrations from reservoir calculations

Time trends of sediment yields using reservoir calculations

Suspended-sediment yield in streams

Western Tennesee

Middle and eastern Tennessee

Summary of sediment yield information

Conclusions and recommendations for further studies

Selected references

 


 

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