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

爬到南唱诗上去原本是去看花饰窗格，却发现们已经严重破裂，就像所有达勒姆古老的沙岩那样。

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英里就是去拱门国家公园的岔道，国家公园里有世界上最密集的沙岩拱门。

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。

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

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。

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，它们散布沙岩中。

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 sandstone should not have been here.

沙岩不应该这里。