Which erosional outcome initiates when stream channels offset laterally along a transform fault?

💡 Explanation

River piracy accelerates locally because strike-slip motion along the transform fault causes stream capture via headward erosion; therefore one river captures the flow of another stream, rather than simple sediment changes driven by gradient alterations.

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