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• Channeled flow of water,

• Flow into the sea, lakes, and deserts,

• Divided into two different features.

• River provides water to human being Manki Kim

GeographyMs. Hornchen

• Contain one channel that winds its way across the floodplain

• It deposits sediment on banks that lie on the insides of curves

• Fine-grained material on the floodplain

• As the channel migrates, parts of it may become abandoned and left behin

• The river channel splits into several channels

• Small islands of sand, mud and silt are deposited between these channels

• Deposition occurs as the river becomes shallower

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Book:

• Punnett, Neil. People in the Physical Landscape. Hong Kong: SIMON & SCHUSTER EDUCATION, 1994. Geography. 1987.

• Smith, Roger M. Images of The World. Longman, 1983. An Atlas Satellite Imagery and Maps.

Internet:

• http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~millerm/braided.html

• www.rivers.gov.au/

• http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~millerm/meander.html

•http://waterknowledge.colostate.edu/braided.htm


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