Which outcome occurs when islands interrupt prevailing wave patterns?

💡 Explanation

A tombolo forms due to wave diffraction around the island, depositing sediment in the wave shadow. Wave diffraction focuses energy, concentrating sediment transport landward; therefore, tombolo creation occurs rather than tidal amplitude change or other effects.

• Which outcome results when concentrated agricultural runoff infiltrates karst topography?
• Which process causes rapid uplift on the footwall side adjacent to normal fault during extension?
• Which risk increases when rapidly melting permafrost destabilizes stream banks?
• Which geological hazard increases when groundwater extraction accelerates near a transform fault?
• Which consequence results when localized sticking halts transform fault creep?
• Following prolonged drought, which outcome initiates desert pavement formation?