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Braided stream

A relatively shallow stream with many branches that commonly recombine and migrate across a valley floor. Braided streams typically form downstream of a glacier.

Tasman River, South Island, New Zealand, fed by Tasman Glacier off the picture to the right, and the Hooker and Mueller glaciers in the valley in the centre background. Photo M. J. Hambrey.

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