New theories propose that catastrophic impacts of asteroids and comets may have caused reversals in the Earth's magnetic field, the onset of ice ages, splitting apart continents 80 million years ago, and great volcanic eruptions.
the splitting apart of continents 为正确答案
continents that were split apart 我认为的答案,请问这里continents 不是和前后的名词并列吗? 而且正确答案中一个名词后直接加时间不是很奇怪吗?
这句话的意思是XXX回给地球带来一些列的灾难,灾难有地球磁场的反转、冰河时代的来临、大陆板块的分裂、以及火山爆发。continents that were split apart的意思是分裂的大陆板块,前文的xxx显然不能引发大陆板块,换句话说这里实质上平行的是各种灾难,continents不能是灾难。