What is the evidence that the interior of North America experienced major subsidence during the Cretaceous?
A) Petrified walrus tusks were discovered under Calgary.
B) Ophiolite sequences are found in the Canadian prairies.
C) Failed mid- ocean rifts occur in southern Alberta.
D) Sea water invaded much of the continent in which marine sedimentary rocks formed.
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