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What do you call these things - riviolettes?

I was wondering what these things are - riviolettes or something like that? :confused:

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/4020/dsc00640ji2.jpg
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alex p
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looks like part of a braided channel tbh
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What's a braided channel? :s-smilie:

Thanks for your help. :wink:
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i dont know whether this is what youre picture is, but it kind of fits. basically when a river has a varying energy its quite common for it to pick up coarser sediments like grit or gravel, and then deposit them when the energy becomes lower into things called eyots (the mound bits in your photo that seperate the "mini rivers" as it were)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braided_river


http://www.armfield.co.uk/images/s12mk2_braided.jpg

is a small scale example
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Thank you very much for your help. :biggrin:

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