INTERIOR DEPARTMENT is PRINCIPAL COORDINATOR FOR WORLDWIDE "CHEMICAL DENUDATION OF LAND" STUDIES, NOVEMBER 3, 1958

Abstract

“Streamflow data and two-liter samples of water from some of the 65 major rivers of the world are beginning to arrive at the U. S. Geological survey as part of a worldwide effort to learn how much water flows into the oceans and how much of the land these rivers carry off as dissolved solids, the Department of the Interior said today.”