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
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