The phrase "an explanation of the causes" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the reasons behind a particular event or phenomenon, often in academic or analytical contexts.
Example: "The report provides an explanation of the causes of climate change, highlighting both natural and human factors."
Alternatives: "a description of the reasons" or "a clarification of the factors".
In this paper I do not intend to give an exact and overall description of the transformation of the Hungarian economy let alone an explanation of the causes of the collapse of the socialist experiment in Eastern Europe.
The authors' findings, showing that occipital temporal regions can decode upcoming actions would seem to resonate with that type of an explanation of the causes of neural specificity for different classes of visual stimuli in the ventral stream, at least as it applies to the representation of tools.
As an useful and highly informative element of the investigation three tests have been designed to expose the phenomena, which lead to an explanation of the cause of the failure under consideration.
But to be told that a scene of mass death is the result of an accident or terrorism is to be given not only an explanation of the cause but also an idea of how to reckon with the consequence through justice, or revenge, or measures meant to prevent a recurrence.
New CEO Heins appears to have learnt some of the 2011 outage's lessons by putting out a quasi-detailed statement within hours of the outage — albeit without an explanation of the cause.
To be told that a scene of mass death is the result of an accident of terrorism is to be given not only an explanation of the cause but also an idea of how to reckon with the consequence -- through justice, or revenge, or measures meant to prevent a recurrence.
As Mr. Katz, Mr. Moffitt and others note, an explanation of the root causes remains elusive.
A pretest session focuses on factual information, including an explanation of the different causes of deafness, the types of genetic deafness that might play a role in a specific family, modes of inheritance, and genetic testing options, including their risks, benefits, and limitations.
This new approach allows an explanation of the influences caused by (i) contact area, (ii) load configurations, (iii) support conditions, (iv) layup and thickness of the CLT element, and (v) clear edge distances and clear spacing.
Now suppose that the dryness of the brush is cited as an explanation of the flash's causing the fire.
A customer with questions will likely have an explanation of the situation that caused the question to arise.
