The granite plutons of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California formed because
a. a continental-continental collision caused melting of the North American plate.
b. subduction of an oceanic plate beneath the North American continent produced
volcanoes and magmas that cooled deeper in the crust.
c. the San Andreas transform fault caused melting of the North American plate.
d. there was no plate boundary near western North America.
e. volcanoes spewed forth huge amounts of granite.
B
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