I believe it's A a gap or crack caused by damage.
The ellipsis used in the paragraph is meant to indicate an omission.
An ellipsis refers to the three dots that are used in between sentences or phrases. They can be used to omit unnecessary data that might obscure the true meaning that the author of a text wishes to bring out.
In the text above, there are unnecessary pieces of information in between the phrases that are not needed.
So, the author omits these and links the two necessary pieces of information.
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C because a has 2 parts, b has because making dependent sentence, d is whatever it is (I forgot) but the answer is C
