Anabranching vs Anabranch - What's the difference?
anabranching | anabranch | Related terms |
(hydrology, of a water channel) Splitting around mid-channel islands that are roughly three times the width of the channel at full discharge.
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(hydrology, of a water channel) A diverging branch of a river, creek, or stream which re-enters the main stream.
Anabranching is a related term of anabranch.
In hydrology|of a water channel|lang=en terms the difference between anabranching and anabranch
is that anabranching is (hydrology|of a water channel) splitting around mid-channel islands that are roughly three times the width of the channel at full discharge while anabranch is (hydrology|of a water channel) a diverging branch of a river, creek, or stream which re-enters the main stream.As an adjective anabranching
is (hydrology|of a water channel) splitting around mid-channel islands that are roughly three times the width of the channel at full discharge.As a noun anabranch is
(hydrology|of a water channel) a diverging branch of a river, creek, or stream which re-enters the main stream.anabranching
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(-)citation, passage=Work on anabranching channels has been restricted mainly to the alluvial plains of the Murray and the Murrumbidgee, where the anabranches -- offshoots -- rejoin the original trunk or unite with a next-neighbouring trunk, sometimes after a distance of tens of miles.}}
- In particular, logjams blocked channels and led to the formation of side channels and floodplain sloughs, producing multiple anabranching channels and riverine wetlands that are in stark contrast to the large, single channels that exist in these streams today.