Multiple Choice
Which of the following geologic products or processes is not a result of mountain building?
A) building of a deep sea fan of turbidites offshore from a convergent continent-ocean margin
B) downdropped extensional grabens with playa lakes
C) exposure of belts of high pressure, Precambrian, igneous and metamorphic rocks within continental shield areas
D) subsided sedimentary basins in the middle of continental cratons
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