Accretion specifically refers to:

a. the passage of geologic time.
b. the rate of movement of a lithospheric plate.
c. chunks of crust added to a continent by collision.
d. the growth of continental shields.
e. basalt erupting out of a mid-oceanic ridge.


C

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