The severed, upper part of a Jurassic seamount might occur as a distinctive, small terrane________ .
A) along the boundary between two Precambrian shield areas
B) in an accretionary wedge shoved onto an active, continental margin
C) on a passive- margin continental shelf
D) in an arc of composite cone volcanoes far inland from a convergent margin
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