Which of the following processes can cause land surface uplift (i.e., build mountains)?
a. During collisional orogeny or convergent-margin orogeny, horizontal compression
causes the crust to thicken vertically
b. Adding igneous rock to the crust (i.e., volcano eruption or magma intrusion) can
generate mountains
c. Removal of lithospheric mantle from the base of a plate will cause the remaining
lithosphere to rise to form mountains
d. In rifts, hot asthenosphere rises and heats the lithosphere, resulting in uplift of the
lithosphere.
e. All of the above
Answer: e. All of the above
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