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MAJOR rivers are important for an understanding of the overall balance of dissolved and particulate matter carried to the ocean1,2. Although Livingstone3 gives a large amount of information on the world surface waters, there is still a lack of data on many important rivers, especially from South-east Asia. These rivers are generally presumed to contribute a great part to the continental and particulate balance1,3,4, but are poorly documented except for the work of Kobayashi in Thailand5 and a few analyses performed for the International Association of Scientific Hydrology6. The Mekong river is one of the biggest in this region7,8 (Table 1). We have previously studied the hydrology of the Tonle Sap-Mekong system9 and the influence of the Mekong river on Cambodia Grand Lac water chemistry10. Here we deal with analyses performed at Phnom Penh (Fig. 1).

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MEYBECK, M., CARBONNEL, J. Chemical transport by the Mekong river.Nature 255, 134–136 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/255134a0

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• Received: 10 February 1975
• Accepted: 25 March 1975
• Issue date: 08 May 1975
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/255134a0

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