Most of Mainland Alaska, Over Half of B

question 37

Multiple Choice

Most of mainland Alaska, over half of B.C. and the Yukon, and most of Washington, Oregon, Nevada and California are_____________ .

• A) the geologic equivalents of cratonic stratigraphy found all across North America, but these have been intensively deformed by episodes of convergent margin mountain building in Mesozoic and Cenozoic time
• B) an Andean style arc complex, of intermediate and felsic plutonics and volcanics, that formed in Cenozoic time by subduction of Pacific plates beneath North America
• C) accreted terranes transported to the north from more equatorial regions, including: Paleozoic through Mesozoic seafloor, island arcs, submarine deposits, and displaced continental fragments
• D) tectonically deformed and strongly metamorphosed Early Precambrian accretionary wedge deposits from the earliest, west coast, active margin

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