Catalan rivers suffer from sediment accumulation
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 - 11:42
in Earth & Climate
Despite the great difficulties in quantifying all the environmental and human factors that affect sediment discharge by rivers into the sea, a group of Catalan scientists has compiled data to describe and evaluate the solid sediment discharge from nine river basins in Catalonia -- the Ter, Foix, Gaia, Besós, Llobregat, Francolí, Tordera, Muga, and Fluvia.
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