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In What Tectonic Setting Was the Sierra Nevada Formed

Question 84

Question 84

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In what tectonic setting was the Sierra Nevada formed?


A) melting along a transform fault
B) continental rifting
C) a continental collision
D) subduction beneath the continent
E) all of these

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