Which risk increases when supporting walls fail during pre-Columbian terracing?

💡 Explanation

When supporting walls fail, structural integrity decreases because cohesive soil architecture becomes unstable due to a lack of reinforcement, leading to a collapse cascading through the terraces. Therefore catastrophic collapse results, rather than depletion, erosion, or infiltration decrease which require different long-term environmental conditions.

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