Sedimentary processes on the Amazon continental shelf: past, present and future research

World-Wide Delivery of River Sediment to the Oceans

1983 • 3,620 citations

Geochemistry of the Amazon: 2. The influence of geology and weathering environment on the dissolved load

1983 • 1,239 citations

Burial of organic carbon and pyrite sulfur in the modern ocean; its geochemical and environmental significance

1982 • 1,145 citations

Chemical composition of rivers and lakes

1963 • 741 citations

Transport phases of transition metals in the Amazon and Yukon Rivers

1977 • 581 citations

The Geochemistry of the Amazon River System: Part I. The Factors that Control the Salinity and the Composition and Concentration of the Suspended Solids

1967 • 575 citations

The Sediment Yield of Major Rivers of the World

1968 • 541 citations

The removal of dissolved humic acids and iron during estuarine mixing

1978 • 507 citations

Storage and Remobilization of Suspended Sediment in the Lower Amazon River of Brazil

1985 • 475 citations

Geochemistry of the Amazon: 1. Precipitation chemistry and the marine contribution to the dissolved load at the time of peak discharge

1981 • 425 citations

The flocculation of dissolved Fe, Mn, Al, Cu, Ni, Co and Cd during estuarine mixing

1978 • 415 citations

Sedimentation in the World Ocean: With Emphasis On the Nature, Distribution and Behavior of Marine Suspensions

1972 • 402 citations

Society of economic paleontologists and mineralogists

1964 • 374 citations

Diagenesis of Fe and S in Amazon inner shelf muds: apparent dominance of Fe reduction and implications for the genesis of ironstones

1986 • 342 citations

Nature of sediment accumulation on the Amazon continental shelf

1986 • 335 citations

Water chemistry of the Amazon River

1972 • 303 citations

Clay Mineral Segregation in the Marine Environment

1977 • 270 citations

Amazon Cone: Morphology, Sediments, Age, and Growth Pattern

1975 • 250 citations

The deltaic nature of Amazon shelf sedimentation

1986 • 241 citations

Echo character of the western equatorial Atlantic floor and its relationship to the dispersal and distribution of terrigenous sediments

1975 • 236 citations

Equatorial Atlantic Deep-Sea Arkosic Sands and Ice-Age Aridity in Tropical South America

1970 • 221 citations

Petrology, Chemistry, and Texture of Modern River Sands, Amazon River System

1983 • 216 citations

Glauconite and chamosite as depth indicators in the marine environment

1967 • 208 citations

Suspended Solids in Water

1974 • 202 citations

The chemical mass balance of the amazon plume—II. Copper, nickel, and cadmium

1982 • 181 citations

The chemical mass balance in the Amazon plume I: The nutrients

1981 • 178 citations

Quaternary Sedimentation on the Amazon Continental Margin: A Model

1975 • 169 citations

Average Seasonal Variation of the Atlantic Equatorial Currents from Historical Ship Drifts

1984 • 161 citations

Physical Processes and Fine-grained Sediment Dynamics, Coast of Surinam, South America

1981 • 158 citations

Late Quaternary sedimentation in the western equatorial Atlantic

1977 • 152 citations

Reconnaissance investigations of the discharge and water quality of the Amazon River

1968 • 149 citations

Sediment loads in the Amazon River

1979 • 146 citations

Distributary channel meandering and bifurcation patterns on the Amazon deep-sea fan as revealed by long-range side-scan sonar (GLORIA)

1983 • 146 citations

Organic Carbon: Oxidation and Transport in the Amazon River

1980 • 139 citations

Stable isotopic characterization of organic carbon accumulation on the Amazon continental shelf

1986 • 132 citations

Depositional Facies of a Mud Shoreface in Suriname, South America--A Mud Analogue to Sandy, Shallow-Marine Deposits

1985 • 129 citations

Distribution and flux of ²²⁶Ra and ²²⁸Ra in the Amazon River estuary

1985 • 127 citations

Concentration and flux of suspended sediment on the Amazon continental shelf

1986 • 126 citations

Origin of the Atlantic Equatorial Undercurrent

1967 • 118 citations

Suspended sediment in the Amazon River and its tributaries in Brazil during 1982-84

1985 • 115 citations

Effects of suspended sediments on geochemical processes near the mouth of the Amazon River: examination of biological silica uptake and the fate of particle-reactive elements

1986 • 110 citations

Periodic mudflat progradation, northeastern coast of South America; a hypothesis

1981 • 108 citations

Marine muds along the Guyana coast and their origin from the Amazon basin

1971 • 107 citations

Distribution of sedimentary structures in the Amazon subaqueous delta

1986 • 105 citations

Biological uptake and accumulation of silica on the Amazon continental shelf

1983 • 104 citations

Tracing the Amazon component of surface Atlantic water using ²²⁸Ra, salinity and silica

1986 • 102 citations

Physical observations in the plume region of the Amazon River during peak discharge—II. Water masses

1986 • 101 citations

Biological Uptake of Dissolved Silica in the Amazon River Estuary

1975 • 100 citations

Influence of Amazon River discharge on surface salinity and dissolved silicate concentration in the Caribbean Sea

1978 • 95 citations

Notes on the benthic bionomy of the N-NE Brazilian shelf

1970 • 94 citations

The major-element chemistry of suspended matter in the Amazon Estuary

1980 • 90 citations

The Orinoco Delta

1967 • 90 citations

Age relationships of distributary channels on Amazon deep-sea fan: Implications for fan growth pattern

1983 • 89 citations

General characteristics of benthic faunas on the Amazon inner continental shelf with comparison to the shelf off the Changjiang River, East China Sea

1986 • 89 citations

Relict magnesian calcite oolite and subsidence of the Amazon shelf

1975 • 86 citations

Modern sediment accumulation and strata formation on the Amazon continental shelf

1982 • 85 citations

Cation-exchange characteristics of Amazon River suspended sediment and its reaction with seawater

1979 • 83 citations

Coagulation Rates of Clay Minerals and Natural Sediments

1983 • 79 citations

Coagulation and settling of Amazon River suspended sediment

1986 • 73 citations

Physical observations in the plume region of the Amazon River during peak discharge—I. Surface variability

1986 • 73 citations

Oceanography and Suspended Matter Off the Amazon River February-March 1973

1975 • 73 citations

Temporal variability in the partitioning of thorium between dissolved and particulate phases on the Amazon shelf: implications for the scavenging of particle-reactive species

1986 • 68 citations

Actual development of the chenier coast of suriname (South America)

1980 • 68 citations

Variations of Sediment Texture on the Amazon Continental Shelf

1983 • 64 citations

Postglacial Iron-Rich Crusts in Hemipelagic Deep-Sea Sediment

1973 • 63 citations

Non-uniform vertical distribution of fine sediment in the Amazon River

1979 • 58 citations

The effects of clay mineral reactions on dissolved Al distributions in sediments and waters of the Amazon continental shelf

1986 • 53 citations

High-resolution seismic stratigraphy and its sedimentological interpretation on the Amazon continental shelf

1986 • 47 citations

Orinoco and Amazon River sediment input to the eastern Caribbean Basin

1985 • 43 citations

Observations of near‐surface currents and temperature in the central and western tropical Atlantic Ocean

1983 • 43 citations

Physical observations in the plume region of the Amazon River during peak discharge—III. Currents

1986 • 42 citations

Currents on the shelf of north-eastern South America

1982 • 37 citations

Structure of the northern Brazilian continental margin

1977 • 35 citations

Mass-physical and geotechnical properties of surficial sediments and dense nearbed sediment suspensions on the Amazon continental shelf

1986 • 34 citations

Size distribution of Amazon River bed sediment

1980 • 32 citations

A zero potential vorticity model of the North Brazilian Coastal Current

1985 • 30 citations

Identification of Amazon River water at Barbados, W. Indies, by salinity and silicate measurements

1972 • 29 citations

Nearshore suspended sediment variations, central Surinam coast

1977 • 27 citations

The bottom sediments of the Amazon shelf and tropical Atlantic Ocean

1973 • 26 citations

Equatorial Undercurrent and Related Currents off Brazil in March and April 1963

1963 • 26 citations

Stratigraphic And Structural Framework Of The FOZ D0 Amazonas Basin

1978 • 24 citations

Transverse bedforms on the Amazon shelf

1986 • 23 citations

Comparison of Eddies off the North Brazilian and Somali Coasts

1984 • 19 citations

Sediment Distribution in Western Atlantic Off Northern Brazil--Structural Controls and Evolution

1978 • 17 citations

SUSPENSION AND TRANSPORTATION OF FLUID MUD BY SOLITARY-LIKE WAVES

1978 • 16 citations

Limnological studies in the Amazon estuary

1964 • 15 citations

The Suspended Material of the Amazon Shelf and Tropical Atlantic Ocean

1974 • 14 citations

Relict magnesian calcite oolite and subsidence of the Amazon shelf

1977 • 14 citations

SUSPENSION AND TRANSPORTATION OF FLUID MUD BY SOLITARY-LIKE WAVES

1978 • 7 citations