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Braided streams are created when the discharge of water cannot transport its load. When there is a decrease in stream velocity sediment is deposited on the floor of the channel creating bars. The bars separate the channel into several smaller channels creating a braided appearance.
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Braided river - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. ... English: Braided Stream: These streams move tremendous amounts of gravel but usually look low or even empty. (Fairbanks' Tanana River, Sept 15, 2001)
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Braided stream systems have multiple interconnected channels,(Figure 1), resembling the strands of a braid, with very low stream gradient (<0.5% channel slope). These systems generally have broad valleys with well-defined floodplains.
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This artwork features air bubbling up through a fine powder constrained between two glass plates tilted at a 45 degree angle. The tilting creates a continually changing landscape evocative of aerial photographs of river drainage networks on Earth and on Mars. ... CMP > Exhibits > On-line Catalog > B > Braided Stream...
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This anastomosing stream is in the Fairweather Range of southeastern Alaska, where a heavy sediment load from Rendu Glacier has built up an outwash plain. See more photos of the Fairweather Range in my Gulf of Alaska photo tour and Alaskan fieldwork series.
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The observed depositional patterns are similar to Miall's (1981) Bijou Creek type. This suggests an ephemeral, braided stream system subject to infrequent, violet flash floods at the time of deposition.
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We re-interpret this unit as a braided-stream/eolian deposit based on evidence from eight measured partial sections in Pine Co., MN. Three facies are identified.
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Title : Channel adjustment and a test of rational regime theory in a proglacial braided stream. Publication : Geomorphology; Issue : 37(1-2): Page(s) : 43-63. ... The upstream reach of the Sunwapta River, Alberta, provides a useful quasi-experimental field case of channel adjustment in a proglacial stream.
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This aerial view of a braided stream shows the intertwining nature of the channels. Braided streams form when streams are overloaded with sediment. In this case, the stream is fed by the melting Kennicott Glacier in Alaska, which provides more sediment than the stream can carry.
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