Which outcome occurs when stream capture diverts a river through a meander neck during rapid lateral erosion?

💡 Explanation

An oxbow lake forms because stream capture decreases the flow through the original meander, therefore the cutoff loop becomes isolated, forming an oxbow lake, rather than causing changes distant processes like sedimentation or delta formation.

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