A sediment-choked stream consisting of entwined subchannels.
A stream made of many channels that intertwine to look like a braid. Braided streams form when the stream has a large amount of sediment.
A low-gradient, low-volume stream flowing through an intricate network of interlacing shallow channels that repeatedly merge and divide, and are separated from each other by branch islands or channel bars. Such a stream may be incapable of carrying all of its load. Most streams that receive more sediment load than they can carry become braided.
A network of converging and diverging streams separated from each other by narrow strips of sand and gravel.
A stream that becomes a maze of interconnected channels with excess sediment. See Outwash Plain and Sandur.
A stream that is characterized by a complex network of branches that continuously separate and reunite. Streams braid when they have a much greater sediment load than they can carry. Also called an Anastomosing Stream/. ---------------------- Calving The process by which pieces of ice break away from the terminus of a glacier that ends in a body of water or from the edge of a floating ice shelf that ends in the ocean. Once they enter the water, the pieces are called icebergs.
Intertwined shallow stream channels.
A stream with a complex tangle of converging and diverging channels separated by sand bars or islands.
a stream form characterized by anastomosing channels separated by bars and generally found where a sudden decrease in gradient occurs.
Characterized by successive division and rejoining of streamflow with accompanying islands. A braided stream is composed of anabranches.
A stream channel morphological type consisting of multiple channels that diverge and rejoin across the floodplain (braidplain); the channel cross section is typically wide relative to its depth and the predominant sediment transported is bedload
A complex tangle of converging and diverging stream channels (Anabranches) separated by sand bars or islands. Characteristic of flood plains where the amount of debris is large in relation to the discharge.
stream so choked with sediment that it divides and recombines numerous times, forming many small and meandering channels.
A stream whose flow is divided at normal stage by small islands.
Shallow stream channel that is subdivided into a number of continually shifting smaller channels that are separated by bar deposits.
Where more sediment is being brought to any part of a stream than it can remove, the building of bars becomes excessive, and the stream develops an intricate network of interlacing channels, the stream is said to be braided.
A stream or river having multiple, dynamic, diverging, and converging channels, operating within a single, usually sandy, streambed. Characteristic of intermittent or highly variable flows.