Multiple Choice
One piece of evidence for the substantial compression accompanying terrane accretion in B.C.and the Yukon is ________.
A) Pleistocene folds in the offshore crust of the Pacific plate
B) Jurassic and Cretaceous deformations in the fold and thrust belt of the Canadian Rockies in B.C.and Alberta
C) Paleozoic subsidence in the Williston Basin of Saskatchewan and Manitoba
D) Pleistocene uplift and erosion in the Canadian Shield of the Northwest Territories
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