The Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, and the Teton Mountains of Wyoming, ranges are examples of ________
A) folding, compression, and thickening of Paleozoic strata in Jurassic time
B) fault blocks uplifted by late Tertiary to Quaternary normal faulting
C) uplifted blocks bounded by Quaternary reverse faults
D) isostatic uplift of crust over thickened in early Paleozoic time
B
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Late Cretaceous to Early Paleogene phase of the Cordilleran orogeny that was responsible for
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A)saltation only B)abrasion only C)deflation only D)saltation and abrasion E)abrasion and deflation
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