Deep ocean trenches are surficial evidence for_______ .
A) sinking of oceanic lithosphere into the mantle at a subduction zone
B) transform faulting between an oceanic plate and a continental plate
C) rifting beneath a continental plate and the beginning of continental drift
D) rising of hot asthenosphere from deep in the mantle
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