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Transporting Sediments via Rivers to the Ocean, and the Role of Sediments as Pollutants in the South Pacific

Location
TONGA
Author(s)
Asquith,M
Publisher
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Publication Year:
1994
Publication Place
Samoa
Physical Description:
79p,;29cm
Call Number
POL
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
20705
Legacy PEIN ID:
60628
General Notes
The objectives of this project were to review the present state of knowledge on the amounts and the effects of suspended material tranported to the oceans by the rivers in the South Pacific, review the causes of higher anthropogenically-generated sediment loads in SOuthe Pacific rivers and the effects of increased sediment loads on coast and coastal ecosystems in the South Pacific
Location
TONGA
Author(s)
Asquith,M
Publisher
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Publication Year:
1994
Publication Place
Samoa
Physical Description:
79p,;29cm
Call Number
POL
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
20705
Legacy PEIN ID:
60628
General Notes
The objectives of this project were to review the present state of knowledge on the amounts and the effects of suspended material tranported to the oceans by the rivers in the South Pacific, review the causes of higher anthropogenically-generated sediment loads in SOuthe Pacific rivers and the effects of increased sediment loads on coast and coastal ecosystems in the South Pacific
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Record Modified: 22-Feb-2021