Braided

Braided rivers are dynamic, mobile, rivers where the channel is divided into several sub-channels separated by active mid-channel bars.

In braided rivers, most bars are unvegetated and the wetted area, at low flows, represents substantially less than 50% of the river bed. Bar surfaces are typically at lower elevations than the vegetated floodplain margins.

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