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    Mountainous Relief Is Due to the Rotation and Sinking of Lithospheric
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Mountainous Relief Is Due to the Rotation and Sinking of Lithospheric

Question 14

Question 14

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Mountainous relief is due to the rotation and sinking of lithospheric blocks in a ________ tectonic setting.


A) extensional
B) convergent continent-ocean
C) Convergent ocean-ocean
D) convergent continent-ocean

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