According to the text, what evidence shows that the two wrecks were not lost in the same storm?

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The two shipwrecks lie within a mile of each other, and both were first thought to be casualties of the same storm of 1703. Dendrochronology of the timbers has since separated them: the northern wreck's oak was felled around 1690, consistent with the storm, but the southern wreck's timbers date from the 1740s, four decades later. The southern ship, whatever sank it, was not there in 1703.

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A. The timbers of the southern wreck were cut about forty years after those of the northern wreck.. Tree-ring dates put the southern ship's timbers in the 1740s, after the storm.

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B. The wrecks lie a mile apart. — Distance was consistent with the same storm.

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C. The northern wreck's oak was felled around 1690. — That date fits the storm; it is the southern wreck's date that breaks the link.

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D. The storm of 1703 sank only one ship. — The text does not say how many ships the storm sank.

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Answer: A. The timbers of the southern wreck were cut about forty years after those of the northern wreck.

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