Which risk most profoundly affects infrastructure built on deeply deposited alluvial fans?

💡 Explanation

Avulsion presents a major risk because alluvial fans have multiple, unpredictable flow paths. These streams shift courses rapidly via channel avulsion, a relocation driven by increased sediment deposition, therefore infrastructure faces sudden overwhelming water flows, rather than slow ground failure.

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