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Old 04-04-2008, 06:14 PM
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Default Is the Southern pt of Central America most likely to be...?

a. a segment of a continental shield
b. pt of a stable platform
c. a former volcanic arc
OR
d. pt of a mt belt of folded sedimentary rocks ?
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Old 04-04-2008, 07:11 PM
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My guess is D, but might be C. because of the Circumpacific
Cordillera. It is attached to Columbia so the transform that brought the two together in the Oligocene might have brought two different terranes into juxtaposition, or two similar continent ocean subduction zones separated by a transform
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