If you were hiking through the Rocky Mountains and saw a sharp ridge of peaks that looked a bit like the teeth of a saw, you might reasonably conclude that it had been shaped by what?

A) Erosion from winter snow packs.
B) A strike-slip fault that caused uplift.
C) Two parallel glaciers in the valleys on each side.
D) Tectonic activity.


C

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