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.
(A)splitting apart continents
(B)the splitting apart of continents
(C)split apart continents
(D)continents split apart
(E)continents that were split apart
题目分析：是个三重并列，前掉的是陨石碰撞会导致ABC三个结果，AC两个结果都用名词，符合这个并列的只有B
