Contribution of River Mouth Reach to Sediment Load of the Yangtze River

Table 2

Erosion/accretion of the river mouth reach (unit: Mt/yr).

Anhui section [15]		Jiangsu section [16]		Whole section [17]
Time	Erosion/accretion	Time	Erosion/accretion	Time	Erosion/accretion
1966–1987	−30.67	1970–1985	104.66	1969–2003	−1.55
1987–2002	−29.12	1985–1992	−196.34
1966–2002	−30.02	1992–2003	−78.30
2002–2007	5.34	1970–2003	9.01
2007–2012	5.95
2002–2012	5.66			2003–2008	124.33

The original units of the referenced data were 10⁶ m³/yr, but these were changed to Mt/yr for convenience under the assumption that the dry bulk density of the sediments was 1.3 × 10³ kg/m³ [6].