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The study is focused on the specific features of ice regime in Amur lower reaches and the structure of ice surface in branches of different size and dynamic state. The main features of ice stratigraphy in different parts of the river have been identified, and ice cover characteristics have been found to show considerable heterogeneity across the channel. Quantitative data on the concentration of terrigenous material in the ice and its distribution within the ice mass have been collected. The amount of terrigenous material was estimated in the ice in Amur lower reaches, from where it is largely exported into the Sea of Okhotsk during spring ice drift.
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Original Russian Text © A.N. Makhinov, V.I. Kim, S.A. Shmigirilov, 2017, published in Vodnye Resursy, 2017, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 432–441.
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Makhinov, A.N., Kim, V.I. & Shmigirilov, S.A. The structure of ice and ice cover in lower Amur reaches with branched channel. Water Resour 44, 559–567 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0097807817040108
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