An accretionary prism of sediments and oceanic crust is formed:
A) an oceanic trench created by the subduction of one oceanic plate beneath another plate
B) in the asthenosphere as the subduction of one oceanic plate enters the asthenosphere
C) on top of the oceanic plate that is not being subducted
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