8261

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8261
• Author: Thompson, K. R.
• Title: Annual Suspended-Sediment Loads in the Green River at Green River, Utah, 1930-82.
• USFW Year: 1984.
• USFW - Doc Type: Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4169,
• Copyright Material: NO

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AJ:)stract .............................................................

Introouct.ion .........................................................

Pur};X)5e: and sCX>};)e ...............................................

General description of the Green River basin....................
Collection and evaluation of records .................................
Sus};)ended-sedirnent le>a.ds. .............................................
Annual supsended-sedinent loads. 1930-82 ........................
Estimating annual suspended-sediment loads ......................
SlJI1"I1la.ry ..............................................................
References cited .....................................................

Definition of terms

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ILLUSTRATIONS

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Map shCMing location of gaging station 0g315000
on the Green River at Green River, Utah .................

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GraIil, showing annual sus~nded-sediIrent load at
station 09.315000, water years 1930-82 ....................

GraIh showing annual stream discharge at station
09.315000, water years 1930-82 .............'..............

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Double-mass curve showing relationship between annual
susp:mded-sediment load and annual stream discharge
at station 0g315000, water years 1930-82 ................

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Grap, showing cumulative annual sus{:ended-sediment
load at station 09315000. water years 1930-82 ...........

6. Flow-duration curves for the Green River at station

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Grap, showing relationship between annual sus{:eooed-
sediment load and annual stream discharge showing
9O-~rcent confidence interval, at station 09315000,

water years 1965-82 .....................................

TABLE

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Table 1. Sus{:ended-sedirnent loads before and after the closure of

Flarnin.g Gorge IlaIn ......................................... 12

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