During steamboat era, the Missouri was characterized by shifting channels, numerous braided channels, chutes, sloughs, islands, sandbars, and backwater areas.
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The braided channels may flow within an area defined by relatively stable banks or may occupy an entire valley floor.
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Because the Lake Eyre Basin is almost flat, rivers flow slowly and frequently split up into floodplains or multiple braided channels.
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The main braided channels of Skei�ar�rsandur are the G�gjukv�sl and Skei�ar?rivers, which incurred net gains of respectively during the 1996 j�kulhlaup.
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Currently, the Kobuk River in its middle and lower reaches is an braided channels in places, wide migrating meander bends, and oxbow lakes.
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In September 2011, the Brahmaputra River flowed through braided channels, but a year later, the channels could not be detected in the swollen river.
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Braided channels are also typical of environments that dramatically decrease channel depth, and consequently channel velocity, such as river deltas, alluvial fans and peneplains.
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It then flows in a northerly direction, with many smaller tributaries feeding the river which forms a series of braided channels across the plains.
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Researchers working on channel morphology have shown the importance of vegetation in restricting braided channels to a single thread ( and often sinuous ) system.
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The river's gravel bottom and braided channels are ideal for the many king salmon that spawn in its waters, but they limit navigation to small skiff.
