Deep Ocean Trenches Are Surficial Evidence for ________

question 37

Multiple Choice

Deep ocean trenches are surficial evidence for ________.

• A)rifting beneath a continental plate and the beginning of continental drift
• B)sinking of oceanic lithosphere into the mantle at subduction zones
• C)rising of hot asthenosphere from deep in the mantle
• D)transform faulting between an oceanic plate and a continental plate

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