Discussion
A river will develop braided channel pattern due to significant :
Answer: A
A braided pattern develops with a significant increase in the amount of coarse sediment load.
When a river is supplied with more bedload sand and gravel than it can carry, it drops the excess as bars in mid-channel. Flow splits around the bars into many shallow, interlacing channels, and the bars shift with every flood. Steep gradients and highly variable discharge, as below glaciers, encourage the same result.
A decrease in coarse load would let the river concentrate into a single channel. Increasing sinuosity is the meandering tendency, the opposite style. Wash load is the fine clay and silt carried in suspension, which plays little part in building braid bars.
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