Soviet Rivers: Analytical Component

1990年夏天，在一次非常成功的考察中，对从苏联境内流入黑海的河流进行了采样。建议继续和发展与苏联科学家的合作，将这项工作扩展到东方的河流。我们的苏联同事建议在1991年春季对咸海的两个支流阿姆河和叙尔河的源头进行取样，在1991年夏季开始对上勒拿河进行取样，并在1992年对下勒拿河和英迪吉尔卡进行研究。这些研究将提供关于苏联河流风化产量的宝贵资料，从而大大加强全球质量平衡研究的数据库。东部的河流排出独特的无冰川的亚北极环境。这将使人们能够对风化过程与南美洲著名的热带河流进行比较研究，这些河流排出类似的岩石类型。该项目还将提供最有可能首先受到任何温室效应影响的地区的基线信息。

The rivers flowing into the Black Sea from the territory of the Soviet Union were sampled on a very successful expedition in the Summer of 1990. It is proposed to continue and develop this collaboration with Soviet scientists by extending this work to the rivers of the East. Our Soviet colleagues have proposed that the headwaters of the two affluents of the Aral Sea, Amu Darya and Syr Darya, be sampled in the Spring of 1991, that work on the Upper Lena begin in the Summer of 1991 and that the Lower Lena and Indigirka be studied in 1992. These studies will provide valuable information on the weathering yield from the rivers of the Soviet Union thereby greatly strengthening the data base for global mass balance studies. The rivers of the East drain a unique unglaciated sub-Arctic environment. This will allow a comparative study of weathering processes with the well known Tropical rivers of South America which drain similar rock types. This project will also provide base line information on the region most likely to be first impacted by any greenhouse warming.