Examples
Extensive braided river systems are found in Alaska, Canada, New Zealand's South Island, and the Himalayas, which all contain young, rapidly eroding mountains.
The enormous Brahmaputra-Jamuna River in Asia is a classic example of a braided river.
Two notable braided rivers in Europe are the Narew in Poland and Belarus and the Tagliamento in Northeastern Italy.
A notable example of a large braided stream in the contiguous United States is the Platte River in central and western Nebraska. The sediment of the arid Great Plains is augmented by the presence of the nearby Sandhills region north of the river.
A portion of the lower Yellow River takes a braided form
The Sewanee Conglomerate, a Pennsylvanian coarse sandstone and conglomerate unit present on the Cumberland Plateau near the University of the South, may have been deposited by an ancient braided and meandering river that once existed in the eastern United States. Others have interpreted the depositional environment for this unit as a tidal delta
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