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The cone-shaped deposit where a mountain stream breaks onto a gentle plain is an:

AEsker ridge
BDrumlin hill
CDelta plain
DAlluvial fan
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Alluvial fan
1. Coarse load becomes too heavy to carry. 2. It spreads as an alluvial fan. 3. Streams on the fan form distributaries. _Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 7, Landforms and their Evolution._
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