What is the mostly likely setting for this drainage pattern?





A) The rocks have a relatively equal resistance to erosion.

B) Drainages have followed a series of fractures that branch off of one another.

C) The area has folded or faulted rocks with different resistances to erosion.

D) A volcano once existed here but has been partly eroded away.


A) The rocks have a relatively equal resistance to erosion.

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