Figure 1. -- Average concentration of suspended sediment in rivers and average discharge of suspended
sediment at the mouths of selected rivers of the conterminous United States. Map was simplified from
Rainwater, 1962. See Table 1 for the ranking of rivers.
Table 1. Discharge of suspended sediment to the coastal zone by
10 major rivers of the United States, about 1980 (tons/yr = tons per year)
(Meade and Parker, 1984).
