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