What Type of Tectonic Event Formed the Main Structures in the Valley

question 85

Multiple Choice

What type of tectonic event formed the main structures in the Valley and Ridge Province of the Appalachian Mountains?

• A) rifting and stretching of the continental crust
• B) rifting and thickening of the continental crust
• C) melting associated with an ocean-continent convergent margin
• D) a continental collision

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Means

An average or central value derived from a set of numbers by adding them together and dividing by the number of values in the set.

Standard Deviation

A measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values.

Normal Distribution

A statistical distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Mean

A statistical measure that represents the average value of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of all values by the number of values.