Geochemists at Columbia University found a lode of quartzite, a metamorphic rock formed from sandstone, on the Indian Ocean island of Anjouan.

哥伦比亚大学的球化学印度洋昂儒昂岛上发现了一个石英岩矿脉，石英岩是由砂岩形成的变质岩。

For instance, instead of hardening their skin into a protective chrysalis, moths do spin their metamorphic sleeping sack out of silk.

例如，飞蛾不是将皮肤硬化成保护性蛹，而是用丝纺出变质的睡袋。

Ultimately, if we could drill deep enough, we'd actually find metamorphic rocks on every planet, says McSween.

最终，如果我们钻得足够深，我们每个星球上找到变质岩，麦克斯温说。

But on other worlds, it's more typical to find metamorphic rocks forged in the split-second shock of a meteoroid impact.

但其他星球上，更常见的是流星体撞击的瞬间震荡形成的变质岩石。

And baby bees do their change locked inside tiny hexagonal prison cells like some weird dystopian metamorphic " Matrix."

小蜜蜂们把自己锁狭小的六边形牢房里，像一个怪异的反乌托邦蜕变“黑客帝”。

Ehlmann and her team previously identified metamorphic rocks on Mars that she thinks could have formed when hot groundwater circulated through rocks buried underground, a relatively low-temperature, low-pressure process.

埃尔曼和她的团队之前火星上发现了变质岩，她认为这些变质岩可是热下水埋藏于下的岩石循环时形成的，这是一个相对低温、低压的过程。

It's a metamorphic rock, which means it becomes something new under extreme heat and pressure without melting.

这是一种变质岩，这意味着它极端高温和高压下会变成新的东西而不会融化。

And baby bees do their change locked inside tiny hexagonal prison cells like some weird dystopian metamorphic " Matrix." Beetles and cicadas do it too, often buried in the ground for their entire childhood.

而幼蜂则会类似某种怪异反乌托邦式“矩阵” 的六边形小牢房内完成它们的蜕变。 甲虫和蝉也是如此，它们的整个童年常常是下度过的。

Their rhizomes are set in black mould accumulated in hollows of the metamorphic slates beside the pools, where they are well watered without being subjected to flood action.

它们的根茎长黑色的霉菌，这些霉菌堆积水池旁边的变质板岩的空洞，那里它们得到了很好的浇水，没有受到洪水的影响。

Lapis lazuli is not a mineral, but rather a deep blue metamorphic rock that's been prized since early antiquity for its intense color.

青金石并非矿物，而是一种深蓝色的变质岩，自远古时代起便因其浓烈的色彩备受珍视。

Actual rock, which I don't have to tell you, is a metamorphic rock of the monoclinic crystal system, if you're doing it right.

真正的岩石， 不用我说，是一种单斜晶系的变质岩，如果你做得没错的话。

The new metamorphic rocks are typically harder, more compact, and are more resistant to weathering.

新的变质岩通常更硬、 更致密，并且更耐风化。

The lowest layers of metamorphic and volcanic rocks, he called the Primary layer.

变质岩和火山岩的最低层 ，他称之为初级层。

Named for the beautifully striped metamorphic rock that Mike's holding.

因其美丽条纹的变质岩而得名，正是迈克手所持之石。

The rock here is black metamorphic slate, worn into smooth knobs in the stream channels, contrasting with the fine gray and white cascading water as it glides and glances and falls in lace-like sheets and braided overfolding currents.

这里的岩石是黑色变质板岩，河道磨损成光滑的旋钮，与精细的灰色和白色瀑布形成鲜明对比，因为它花边般的床单和编织的折叠电流滑动、扫视和落下。

Like igneous rocks could skip being sedimentary rocks and go directly to being a metamorphic rock.

像火成岩可以跳过 沉积岩，直接变成变质岩。

The third type of rock are the metamorphics, and the metamorphics can either be sedimentary or igneous rocks that have been changed by heat and pressure deep underground.

第三种岩石是变质岩，变质岩可以是沉积岩或火成岩，它们下深处被热量和压力改变。