What Is the Meguma Zone in Nova Scotia (And Similar

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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) Cretaceous and Tertiary shallow continental shelf deposits from North America's passive margin
• C) passive margin sequence from Rodinia's rifted margin
• D) Ordovician accretionary melange from the Taconic orogeny

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