Conceptual diagram of a braided river and its stratigraphic deposits. Zones of thread confluence and thread splitting, shown by blue arrows, facilitate the formation, accretion, and deformation of bank-attached and mid-channel bars. Within a larger channel-belt sand body, bar deposits can be stratigraphically preserved as packages characterized by sigmoidal bar clinothems that accrete in the direction of bar growth and downlap (e.g., blue arrows in cross-stream stratigraphic view) | Old Memories