COMPUTATION OF FLUVIAL-SEDIMENT DISCHARGE

U.S. Geological Survey, Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations, Book 3, Chapter C3

By George Porterfield

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Section 1 -- 2.84 MB

Preface

Abstract

Introduction

Types of records

Checklist for daily records

Particle-size analysis

Water temperature

Suspended-sediment concentration

Development of a temporal concentration graph

Section 2 -- 2.43 MB

Development of a temporal concentration graph

Computation of daily mean concentration

Footnotes

Significant figures

Computer programs

Format of sediment tables

Computation of sediment discharge

Sediment-discharge worksheet

Station analysis

Station description heading

Periodic observations

Transmittal of completed data

Selected references

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