Folded layers of rock can form a wavelike pattern of troughs and crests. The layers near the trough (i.e. downward fold) form

A) shear.
B) a thrust fault.
C) a tension zone.
D) a syncline.
E) an anticline.


D

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e. Eastern Indian Ocean

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