Which mechanism significantly reduces sediment deposition speed in an alluvial fan channel during a flash flood event?

💡 Explanation

When a flash flood occurs, the immediate discharge and transport overwhelm existing alluvial fan channels; Sediment concentration decrease within the channel is important, causing less available sediment. Therefore, sediment concentration decrease results in decreased deposition speed, rather than flow transition agitation due reduction which involves differing conditions and processes.

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