The ________ is an example of an active,continent-continent collision.
A) Arabian Peninsula slamming into North Africa under the Red Sea
B) westward movement of the South American plate over the Nazca plate
C) northern movement of Baja California and a sliver of western California toward the Hawaiian Islands
D) northward movement of India into Eurasia
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