Tropical Marine Ecology. Daniel M. Alongi
a special case where despite moderate relief the sediment yield is high (even under rainforest), probably because of continuous uplift.
TABLE 4.1 Estimates of water (km3 a−1) and suspended sediment (109 tonnes a−1) discharge from gauged tropical rivers. Rivers are ranked by water discharge.
Source: Alongi (1990), Milliman and Farnsworth (2011) and Liu et al. (2020). © John Wiley & Sons.
| River | Country | Water discharge | Sediment yield |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon | Brazil | 6300 | 1200 |
| Zaire | Zaire | 1300 | 43 |
| Orinoco | Venezuela | 1100 | 210 |
| Brahmaputra | Bangladesh | 630 | 540 |
| Mekong | Vietnam | 550 | 110 |
| Ganges | Bangladesh | 490 | 520 |
| Ayeyarwady | Burma | 430 | 360 |
| Tocantins | Brazil | 370 | 75 |
| Pearl | China | 300 | 69 |
| Zambesi | Mozambique | 220 | 20 |
| Salween | Burma | 210 | 180 |
| Fly | New Guinea | 170 | 120 |
| Niger | Nigeria | 160 | 40 |
| Magdalena | Colombia | 140 | 140 |
| Hungho | Vietnam | 123 | 130 |
| Song Hong | Vietnam | 120 | 50 |
| Rajang | Borneo | 110 | 30 |
| Purari | New Guinea | 105 | 105 |
| Sao Francisco | Brazil | 97 | 1 |
| Godavari | India | 92 | 47 |
| San Juan | Colombia | 82 | 16 |
| Atrato | Colombia | 76 | 11 |
| Sepik | New Guinea | 72 | 45 |
| Essequibo | Guyana | 70 | 4.5 |
| Usumacinta | Mexico | 67 | 6.2 |
| Sanaga | Cameroon | 65 | 6 |
| Marowijne | French Guinea | 57 | 1.4 |
| Corantijn | Guyana | 47 | 1.1 |
| Mahanadi | India | 47 | 16 |
| Tigris‐Euphrates | Iraq | 46 | 1 |
| Doce | Brazil | 45 | 10 |
| Papaloapan | Mexico | 44 | 6.9 |
| Kikori | New Guinea | 43 | 33 |
| Sai Gon | Vietnam | 42 | 3 |
| Patia | Colombia | 40 | 21 |
| Volta | Ghana | 40 | 1.6 |
| Parnaiba | Brazil | 40 | 3 |
| Brahmani | India | 36 | 7 |
| Coco | Honduras | 36 | 6.5 |
| Rufiji | Tanzania | 35 | 17 |
| Tsiribihina | Madagascar | 31 |
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