Which outcome occurs when a river's **sinuosity** is extremely high?

💡 Explanation

Oxbow lakes form because increased sinuosity leads to **meander cutoff**. Deposition occurs at the meander bends, diverting the river through a shorter channel; therefore, an oxbow forms, rather than terraces forming or delta subsidence, which are affected by different processes.

• Which process rapidly alters river delta morphology when coarse alluvial sediment deposition reduces flow capacity?
• Which outcome occurs when sediment supply overwhelms lake subsidence?
• Which effect causes deflection of air masses, resulting in the formation of global wind patterns?
• Which outcome results when a delta experiences overloaded sediment deposition?
• Which geologic outcome primarily occurs along a transform plate boundary?
• Which effect results when strike-slip motion along oceanic transform faults abruptly ceases?