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The enormous Brahmaputra river in Northeastern India is a classic example of a braided river. [18] A notable example of a large braided stream in the contiguous United States is the Platte River in central and western Nebraska. [19] Platte-type braided rivers are characterized by abundant linguoid (tonguelike) bar and dune deposits. [20]
Braided rivers, which form in (tectonically active) areas that have a larger sedimentary load than the discharge of the river and a high gradient. Meandering rivers , which form a sinuous path in a usually low-gradient plain toward the end of a fluvial system.
A wide variety of river and stream channel types exist in limnology, the study of inland waters.All these can be divided into two groups by using the water-flow gradient as either low gradient channels for streams or rivers with less than two percent (2%) flow gradient, or high gradient channels for those with greater than a 2% gradient.
A mid-channel bar, is also often referred to as a braid bar because they are often found in braided river channels. Braided river channels are broad and shallow and found in areas where sediment is easily eroded like at a glacial outwash, or at a mountain front with high sediment loads. [1] [2] These types of river systems are associated with ...
Braided rivers have a channel that consists of a network of small channels separated by small and often temporary islands called braid bars. Also called braided streams, anastomose streams or anastomose rivers.
The terms river morphology and its synonym stream morphology are used to describe the shapes of river channels and how they change in shape and direction over time. The morphology of a river channel is a function of a number of processes and environmental conditions, including the composition and erodibility of the bed and banks (e.g., sand, clay, bedrock); erosion comes from the power and ...
The term braided river describes watercourses which are divided by small islands into multiple channel threads within a single main channel, but the term does not describe the multiple channels of an anabranching river. A distributary is a branch of a river that does not rejoin the main channel; these are common on and near river deltas.
The generally coarse material is the result of the processes common to braid bar formation, and more broadly, braided rivers. Braided rivers are defined by relatively high flow power, as well as significant rates of erosion. [3] These high rates of flow will transport fine-grained materials further downstream, while coarser material remains ...