PRINCIPAL FEATURES OF THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF SUSPENDED LOAD IN WORLD RIVERS

Abstract

We systematized and generalized data on the basic chemical composition of the suspended load from 128 rivers over the observation period from the beginning of the 20th century (the complete source information will be presented in a separate work). Since the direct influence of economic activity on the concentration of the major petrogenic elements in the riverine suspension is negligible, the impact of human factors was not taken into account. We also did not carry out differentiated study of the riverine suspension composition in different hydrogeological (low water, high water, and flood) periods, because of scarcity of the available information.