Braided Stream Deposit in Narrow Valley

Braiding is caused by random deposits of the coarser fraction of the river's bed load when the snow and ice melt ends. Deposits are constrained by the valley walls until they reach the Peel river, where they form a fan delta. The numbered arrows point to numerous landslides in the valley wall. The idealized cross section shows the interlaced lenticular nature of these braided, sand and gravel deposits (Sowers, 1976).

Base photo in low resolution with LINKED locations of high resolution 3D images (10s of kb)
Base photo in medium resolution to allow exploration of gray tone detail (100s of kb)
Three dimensional anaglyph photo at 1200 dpi (MBs JPEG file that will expand to 10s of MB)
Idealized illustrations of deposit (elevation, plan, and/or oblique view)
Photo of typical cross section
Example of typical quantitative characterization data

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