Late-geosynclinal period follows immediately after orogenic stage and there are narrow troughs, back-deeps and intra-deeps which subside and receive sediments from young mountain ranges which are termed:
A. Fly ash in Alpine chains of the Mediterranean and non clastic wedges elsewhere
B. Terrigenous sediments along mid-Atlantic ridge and rift valley
C. Molasse in the Alpine chains of the Mediterranean region and clastic wedges elsewhere
D. They are continental and oceanic deposits and turbidities muds
Answer:C
Late-geosynclinal period follows immediately after orogenic stage and there are narrow troughs, back-deeps and intra-deeps which subside and receive sediments from young mountain ranges which are termed:
A. Fly ash in Alpine chains of the Mediterranean and non clastic wedges elsewhere B. Terrigenous sediments along mid-Atlantic ridge and rift valley C. Molasse in the Alpine chains of the Mediterranean region and clastic wedges elsewhere D. They are continental and oceanic deposits and turbidities muds