What is the breakdown ,mechanically, chemically, or biologically, of large rocks and minerals at the surface of earth?

The rocky mountain system stretching from canada to new mexico is a string of mountains running along the wester united states. what factors would mostly cause this arrangement of mountains? intense pressure undemeath a tectonie plate that could not breakthrough the rock subduction of a tectonic plate, which pushed up a neighboring plate into mountains two plates located at a diverging boundary with a third plate rising between them two plates that melted into molten rock, which later cooled into the shape of mountains

Which theory suggested that the earth was once a signle supercontient that gradually that broke up into the contients that we know today

Some gamma ray bursts are hypothesized to come from mergers of neutron stars or black holes. if this hypothesis is correct, what else should we in principle be able to detect from such mergers? a. gravitiational waves b. x-ray bursts c. significant disruption of gas thousands of light-years away in the surrounding galaxy d. an "afterglow" of bright visible light, lasting for weeks