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The Donjek River of the Yukon Basin is the type for braided rivers showing repeated cycles of deposition, with finer sediments towards the top of each cycle. [20] The Bijou Creek of Colorado is the type for braided rivers characterized by laminated sand deposits emplaced during floods. [20] A portion of the lower Yellow River takes a braided ...
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.
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.
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 high slope, sediment supply, stream power, shear stress, and bed load transport rates. [2] Braided rivers have ...
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 ...
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.
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The term anabranching river describes a river with many anabranches, whilst an anastomosing river is an organic-rich subset of this river type. [1] 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 ...