While most are familiar with the concept of river tributaries, the streams that feed into a larger river, there is a less-common situation where a river divides into smaller streams. This is known as bifurcation and the resulting streams are known as distributaries. Geography Intern Dimitar Zhelev tackles the concept of stream bifurcation and its three main types. (Image: The Nile River bifurcates in the famous Nile Delta. Getty Images.)
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Sometimes it is neither heads no tails. Sometimes a coin could land on its edge. Good article. Except for islands in rivers I don’t thnk I would have predicted any examples so small are the hydaulic differences.