In this publication an attempt is made to compile, evaluate and translate into comparable units all of the know data that might be usable in estimating quantities of sediment carried by streams in the region embracing the Great Basin interior drainage, the Colorado and Gila River watersheds, and the Rio Grande and Pecos River watersheds above the junction of theses streams.

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