The Great Basin region between the eastern Sierra Nevada in California and the Wasatch Mountains in Utah ________ in response to plate-tectonic forces.
A. has expanded in a north-south direction
B. is now a subduction zone
C. has been compressed in an east-west direction
D. has been compressed in a north-south direction
E. has expanded in an east-west direction
Answer: E
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