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.

Excerpt from Rates of Sediment Production in Southwestern United States The curve of this equation is plotted as Curve 1 in Figure 3. Curves 2, 3, and L were drawn by eye. As the exponent is greater than 1 in all cases, the suspended load is shown to increase at a greater rate than runoff. In other words, the larger the annual runoff, the higher is the mean annual sediment concentration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.