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