________ Beneath the Basin and Range Helps Explain the Extensive

question 57

Multiple Choice

________ beneath the Basin and Range helps explain the extensive rhyolitic and basaltic eruptions that occurred tens of millions of years after the last orogeny.

• A)Obduction
• B)Delamination
• C)Wilson Cycles
• D)Subduction
• E)Thickening of the continental crust by "rooting"

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