Subduction of oceanic lithosphere at the trenches sometimes comes pieces of both the continental and oceanic lithosphere to break off and pile up to produce______ .
A) a strike slip fault like the San Andreas
B) a subduction slope
C) subduction erosion
D) an accretionary wedge
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