If the North Atlantic began to rift about 200 million years ago, initiating the break up of Pangaea, where are the Jurassic basalts from that initial rifting?
A)as outcrops and as basement to the continental shelves' sediment sequences along the eastern seaboard of North America and along the western coast of north Africa
B)There aren't any left; they all got recycled back into the mantle along subduction zones underneath western Europe and Brazil.
C)on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge under Iceland
D)subducted beneath the Bermuda triangle

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The Jurassic basalts from the initial rifting of the North Atlantic are found as outcrops and as basement to the continental shelves' sediment sequences along the eastern seaboard of North America and along the western coast of north Africa. These basalts are part of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) and are evidence for the rifting of Pangaea.

If the North Atlantic Began to Rift About 200 Million