Multiple Choice
What is the Meguma Zone in Nova Scotia (and similar rocks beneath the more southerly, continental shelf off the US eastern seaboard) thought to represent?
A) passive margin sequence from Gondwanaland as the Iapetus Ocean closed
B) passive margin sequence from Rodinia's rifted margin
C) Ordovician accretionary melange from the Taconic orogeny
D) Cretaceous and Tertiary shallow continental shelf deposits from North America's passive margin
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