The Great Basin region between the eastern Sierra Nevada in California and the Wasatch Mountains in Utah ______________________ in response to plate tectonic forces.
A) has been compressed in an east-west direction
B) has expanded in an east-west direction
C) has been compressed in a north-south direction
D) has expanded in a north-south direction
E) is now a subduction zone
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