________ beneath the Basin and Range helps to explain the extensive rhyolitic and basaltic eruptions that occurred tens of millions of years after the last orogeny.
A. Thickening of the continental crust by "rooting"
B. Wilson Cycles
C. Delamination
D. Obduction
E. Subduction
Answer: C
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