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Image of the Week: January 23 - 29, 2005

The North Fork of the Toutle River
is a Braided Stream

North Fork Toutle River is a braided stream, Dec. 13, 2004

Braided streams flow in multiple channels
separated by sand and gravel bars that change often.
The cause of this phenomenon is more sediment than the discharge of the stream can handle.

Mount St. Helens is to the left (east) of this image.
This active volcano has supplied large amounts of sediment to this river.

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Go to Glacial Deposition: Braided Streams
Go to Braided Rivers
Go to USGS CMG InfoBank: Point Bars and Cut Banks
Go to Braided Stream - Danali National Park, AK
Go to Fluvial Landforms - GEOG
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Go to Gravelly Braided Stream - N. Fork Toutle River, Washington QT 6.7 MB
Go to XES Braided Stream QT 6.7 MB
Go to Braided Stream - Exploratorium
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LCC Image of the Week 07-08-05
David Cordero
dcordero@lcc.ctc.edu