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Match List-I and List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below :

List I
(Theories/Hypothesis)
List II
(Related Aspects)
(a)Geosynclinal theory(1)Origin of tides
(b)Tetrahedral Hypothesis(2)Origin of coral reef and atolls
(c)Stationary wave theory(3)Mountain building
(d)Subsidence theory(4)Origin of continents and ocean basins

Codes :

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(3) (4) (1) (2)

Geosynclinal theory (Hall, Dana, later developed by Kober): sediments accumulate in a long, subsiding marine trough and are later compressed and uplifted into fold mountains, so item a matches 3, Mountain building.

Tetrahedral hypothesis (Lowthian Green, 1875): a cooling, contracting earth tends towards the shape of a tetrahedron, with the flat faces forming ocean basins and the corners forming continents, so item b matches 4, Origin of continents and ocean basins.

Stationary wave theory (R. A. Harris): each ocean basin oscillates as a standing wave about a nodal line under the tide-producing force, explaining the pattern of tides, so item c matches 1, Origin of tides.

Subsidence theory (Charles Darwin, 1842): a fringing reef grows upward as a volcanic island slowly sinks, turning into a barrier reef and finally an atoll, so item d matches 2, Origin of coral reef and atolls.

So the matching is a–3, b–4, c–1, d–2; the codes that pair the stationary wave theory with coral reefs or swap the first two pairs do not fit these theories.

Hence, (3) (4) (1) (2).

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