The sandstone should not have been here.

沙岩不应该在这里。

Only then came the sand, washed in to form the sandstone.

然后才轮到沙子，冲积到此形成沙岩。

The next awkward fact was the existence of layers of muddy sedimentary rock, interspersed in the sandstone.

下一个反面事实则是泥沙沉积岩层的存在，它们散布在沙岩中。

Climbing up in the south quire to look at the traceries originally, he had found them heavily fissured, like all Durham's ancient sandstone.

爬到南唱诗班席位上去原本是去看花饰格，他却发现他们已经严重破裂，就像所有达勒姆古老的沙岩那样。

Trickling down through gaps in soil and rock, water flows through sandstone, limestone, and basalt, picking up a microscopic compound called silicon dioxide.

水从土壤和岩石的缝隙滴下来，流过沙岩、石灰岩，以及玄武岩，因而携带二氧化矽这种微小化合物。

Just 5 miles north of Moab is the turnoff to Arches National Park, which contains the largest concentration of sandstone arches on the planet.

摩押镇以北5英里就是去拱门园的岔道，园里有世界上最密集的沙岩拱门。

It looked to them as if the lower layer of sandstone had been thoroughly colonised by worms over months or even years.

在他们看来，沙岩的下层地层中几个月甚至几年都可能住满蠕虫。

In the Sandstone Amphitheater that is soon to be on Nelson Mandela's name, three days of lying in state ended with the playing of the South African National Anthem Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika.

在很快将以纳尔逊·曼德拉的名字命名的沙岩露天圆形剧场，为期三天的遗体安放瞻仰在南非歌《天佑南非》的旋律中结束。