FIGURĘ 13.10 The Ninzina River (Alaska) is a braided stream. Notę the very tląc valley bottom, and notice that rhe flowing water :s subdmded into many strands. These channels move trom place to place constantly, keeping the floodplain fiat and free of ve.getation.
FIGURĘ 13.11 A natura] levee shcwing ii? elcvation above che ncrmal flow stage river level. and the abundant plant growth along the river. These levees may błock access of tributary streams co che main crunk stream, forclng the tributanes to flow parallel to the crunk stream some distance downstream to their confluence.