A study of food resources in the North Pacific between 1989 and 1996 revealed that creatures of the seabed were suffering from dwindling food supplies, possibly resulting from increasing sea surface temperatures during the same period.
In A.D. 391. resulting from the destruction of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria, later generations lost all but the lliad and Odyssey among Greek epics, most of the poetry of Pindar and Sappho, and dozens of plays by Aeschylus and Euripides.
(A) resulting from the destruction of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria,
(B) the destroying of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria resulted and
(C) because of the result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world,
(D)as a result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world,
(E)Alexandria's largest library of the ancient world was destroyed, and the result was
D, the best choice, uses the idiomatic as a result of and conveys information unambiguously. In A, the phrase that begins resulting from cannot properly modify later generations.