How did the Gulf of Mexico form?
A) loading of thrust sheets of the Appalachian and Ouachita Mountains
B) a large meteoroid impact that formed a crater the same size as the present-day gulf
C) back-arc spreading behind the Lesser Antilles arc
D) Mesozoic Jurassic) continental rifting and seafloor spreading
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