A channel with numerous aits is called a braided channel.

Below Whanawhana, the river opens to wide braided channel.

During floods the creek becomes a braided channel.

The historic Missouri was a broad, slow-moving, shallow river with braided channels.

Unidirectional flow & sheet-like deposition point to braided channels.

The braided channels may flow within an area defined by relatively stable banks or may occupy an entire valley floor.

It was a drying river bed, the mud cut by twisted, braided channels.

Here, the river is already wide and powerful, winding across a braided channel through a wide floodplain.

To the south, the braided channels and canyons of the Boneyards went on and on.

Like the larger rivers they are erosive, undercutting and destroying their banks to form wide, braided channels.