Following extreme floodplain sediment deposition, which hydrologic effect encourages oxbow formation?

💡 Explanation

Differential sediment deposition induces channel sinuosity changes, increasing erosion along the outer of the bend of a river and reduced flow on the inner bend, encouraging meander cut-off and oxbow lake formation, because of localized differences in flow dynamics; therefore, the answer is sediments, rather than changes in flow velocity which are more uniform in effect.

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