What caused the Nevadan, Sevier, and Laramide orogenies?

a. a change from a high subduction angle to a low subduction angle
b. continental-continental collision
c. a change from a low subduction angle to a high subduction angle
d. glacial rebound
e. emplacement of granitic batholiths


a

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