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Suspended-sediment and fresh-water discharges in the Ob and Yenisey rivers, 1960-1988

International Journal of Earth Sciences
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s005310000107

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Abstract

Of the world's great rivers, the Ob and Yenisey rank among the largest suppliers of fresh water and among the smallest suppliers of suspended sediment to the coastal ocean. Sediment in the middle reaches of the rivers is mobilized from bordering terraces and exchanged between channels and flood plains. Sediment in the lower reaches of these great rivers is deposited and stored (permanently, on a millennial time scale) in flood plains. Sediment discharges, already small under natural conditions, are diminished further by large manmade reservoirs that trap significant proportions of the moving solids. The long winter freeze and sudden spring breakup impose a peakedness in seasonal water runoff and sediment discharge that contrasts markedly with that in rivers of the tropics and more temperate climates. Very little sediment from the Ob and Yenisey rivers is being transported to the open waters of the Arctic Ocean under present conditions.

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Meade, R., Bobrovitskaya, N., and Babkin, V., 2000, Suspended-sediment and fresh-water discharges in the Ob and Yenisey rivers, 1960-1988: International Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 89, no. 3, p. 465-469, https://doi.org/10.1007/s005310000107.

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Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Suspended-sediment and fresh-water discharges in the Ob and Yenisey rivers, 1960-1988
Series title International Journal of Earth Sciences
DOI 10.1007/s005310000107
Volume 89
Issue 3
Year Published 2000
Language English
Publisher Springer
Description 5 p.
First page 465
Last page 469
Country Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia
Other Geospatial Arctic Ocean, Gulf of Ob, Irtysh River, Ob River, Siberia, Yenisey River
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