Geologists regard most bodies of ultramafic rock as being ________.
A. due to gravitational collapse and spreading
B. areas left by block faulting and uplift
C. due to lithospheric delamination
D. intrusions formed during the accumulation stage
E. mantle material faulted into the crust during orogeny
Answer: E
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