A(n) ________ forms when sediments from the ocean floor and pieces of oceanic crust are scraped from a subducting oceanic plate and adhere to an overriding tectonic plate

A) accretionary wedge
B) deep-sea fan
C) active tectonic margin
D) submarine canyon


Answer: A

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