The Sierra Nevada Mountains of California,and the Teton Mountains of Wyoming,ranges are examples of ________.
A) fault blocks uplifted by late Tertiary to Quaternary normal faulting
B) folding,compression,and thickening of Paleozoic strata in Jurassic time
C) isostatic uplift of crust over thickened in early Paleozoic time
D) uplifted blocks bounded by Quaternary reverse faults
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