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A wide, fan shaped deposit sloping down.
A geologist took this aerial photo of a location where a river flows out of a mountain range.

What feature is pictured here?

alluvial fan
delta
flood plain
oxbow lake

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Alluvial fan.

It's the fan-shaped sediment deposit that forms where a steep mountain stream exits the range onto a flatter plain, causing the flow to spread out and drop its load.