[求助]OG11DT-44(and与or的用法)

Seldom more that 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep, but it ran 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of update New York, the Erie Canal connected the Hudson River at Albany to the Great Lakes at Buffalo, providing the port of New York City with a direct water link to the heartland of the North American continent.

A. Seldom more than 40 feet wide and 12 feed deep, but it ran 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, the Erie Canal connected

B. Seldom more than 40 feet wide or 12 feet but running 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, the Erie Canal connected

C. It was seldom more than 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep, and ran 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, but the Erie Canal, connecting

D. The Erie Canal was seldom more than 40 feet wide or 12 feet deep and it ran 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, which connected

E. The Erie Canl, seldom more than 40 feed wide and 12 feet deep, but running 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of update New York, connecting

答案是B，可是D的解释却说“The paired concepts of width and depth should be joined by and ,not or”，这不是自相矛盾吗？谁能解释一下啊？