Many of the Native American dwellings at Mesa Verde and elsewhere in the western United States are located under overhangs that form along the contact between permeable and impermeable rock layers

These overhangs (niches) were primarily created by what process?
A) exfoliation
B) salt-crystal growth
C) carbonic acid solution
D) hydrolysis
E) frost wedging


B

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