Which consequence results when a levee system catastrophically fails adjacent to an alluvial plain underlain by silt?

💡 Explanation

A levee breach causes rapid sediment deposition because avulsion results in flow divergence and decreased stream power upon the alluvial plain. Therefore, crevasse splay sediments are deposited, rather than isostasy/volcanism/decomposition which require different drivers.

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