Southwestern North America contains a large area called the Basin and Range province. What is the origin of this name?
A) Ranges are uplifted horst blocks while basins formed as grabens.
B) The area is characterized by chains of volcanoes forming ranges next to basins that form valleys.
C) Folds have formed by compressional stresses along the plate margin forming ridges ranges. and valleys the basins. of the basin and range province.
D) Thrust faulting along the San Andreas fault produces linear ridges, the ranges, with intervening basinal valleys forming fault block mountains.
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