Multiple Choice
The chaotic accumulation of deformed oceanic sediments, and scraps of ocean crust found plastered onto a convergent continental margins, like that where the Cocos plate subducts beneath western Mexico, is called_________ .
A) a wedgie
B) an accretionary wedge
C) the scrapie
D) a continental margin arc
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