After three years, finally, we were able to show that, in fact, our little rock was geyserite.

三年后，，能够证明，事实上，的小石头是硅华。

Geyserite is a rock type that only forms in and around the edges of hot spring pools.

硅华是一种在热水池边缘及其周围形成的岩石类型。

Now, in order for you to understand the significance of geyserite, I need to take you back a couple of centuries.

现在， 为了让解硅华的重要性，需要把带回几个世纪前。

It took six months before we inspected this rock under a microscope, when one of my mentors at the time, Malcolm Walter, suggested the rock resembled geyserite.

花了六个月的时间， 才在显微镜下检查这块岩石，当时的导师之一马尔科姆·沃尔特建议这块岩石类似硅华。