distributary channel

Most of the distributary channels parallel to the main channel are dry and blocked with debris.

This results in additional deposition on the upstream end of the mouth-bar, which splits the river into two distributary channels.

Quenemsia at Grand Island among the distributary channels of the Sacramento River.

It is the main distributary channel of the Brahmaputra River as it flows from India to Bangladesh.

A distributary, or a distributary channel, is a stream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel.

These include rewatering dry distributary channels, managing flows from Grant Lake to mimic natural flows, and planting vegetation in certain areas.

Towards the west they become more deltaic with meandering stream, distributary channel and barrier type sedimentation in Holland and the southern North Sea.

The two largest rivers, the Ganges and Brahmaputra, both split into distributary channels, the largest of which merge with other large rivers before themselves joining.

The distributary channels are narrow and rectilinear with the depth ranging from 8 to 15 m and distributary channel bifurcations appear every 10 to 15 km.

Traces of the delta and its distributary channels on the northern boundary of the Rann of Kutch were documented by the Geological Survey of India in 2000.

When this larger lake overflowed it flowed out through the Buena Vista Slough that began southeast of what is now Tupman where it met the Kern River distributary channel.

The mouth of the Loire has a submerged delta of this type, the two distributary channels being near the land on either side and separated by a mass of sediment some of which is exposed at low tide as banks in mid-estuary.

The Selinda Spillway, also known as the Magweqana, is a distributary channel that flows eastward from the delta in periods of high water, connecting the Okavango to the Kwando River, a tributary of the Zambezi.

Situated at a distributary channel for flood water in a former boathouse and opposing the border of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, it came to fame for its focus mainly on Minimal music and dj-sets by Ricardo Villalobos and Richie Hawtin.

An example of inland distributaries is the Teton River, a tributary of Henrys Fork in Idaho, which splits into two distributary channels, the North Fork and South Fork, which join Henrys Fork miles apart.

This production and shipping could be disrupted by gunboats moving up the Black, the Pee Dee, the Waccamaw, and the Sampit rivers, which flow into the bay; and the two distributary channels of the Santee River, whose mouths lie just below the bay.