Brilliantly colored mudstones and clays cover the land as far as the eye can see.

目光所及之处，色彩鲜艳泥和粘土覆盖着陆地。

So next time you're near some sandstone or mudstone, think of what fossils could be hiding, just waiting to be discovered.

所以，下次当你在砂或泥附近时，想一想会隐藏着什么被等待人类发石吧。

It sits on top of a tower of darker rock called mudstone.

它坐落在一块叫做泥深色顶上。

In comparison, the other is a mudstone with intriguing organic compounds.

相比之下，另一块是含有引人入胜有机合物泥。

Or shale, a mixture of hardened clay and mud.

或者泥，一种硬了黏土和泥混合物。

Burney beaches have real funky kind of mud rocks.

伯尼海滩上有真正奇特泥。

So for example, lots of accumulated sand forming sandstone or mud forming mudstone.

，大量积聚沙子形成砂，或泥浆形成泥。

You're searching for fossils in the Harrison Formation -- a big swath of siltstone, sandstone, and volcanic ash dating back to the Miocene Epoch some 22 million years ago.

你在哈里森地层中寻找石——这片地层由泥、砂和火山灰组成，可以追溯到约2200万年前中新世。

We call rocks made of mud, Mudstone or sometimes Shale.

我们称由泥土、泥或有时页制成石。

We've got mudstones and very fine-grained sediments and how they fossilize, nodules and cementation.

我们有泥和非常细粒沉积物，以及它们何石、结核和胶结作用。

Shale fish... Shell fish... sh--because shale is a rock?

泥鱼… … 贝壳鱼… … 壳——因为泥是一种石？

So mudstones tend to be in the more distal environment, so further offshore.

因此，泥往往位于更远端环境中，因此离岸更远。

Sedimentary rocks take many forms, sand stones, mud stones, shales, iron stones, you name it.

沉积有多种形式，砂、泥、页、铁矿石，应有尽有。

The earliest-known eurypterine is a little species dated to 445 million years ago, discovered in the shales of South Africa.

最早已知广翅亚目是一种生活在4.45亿年前小型物种，在南非泥中被发。

In this quarry, the dinosaurs are being found in something called mudstone, silt stone or a shale and these rocks are very fine grained and they represent quiet water environments.

在这个采石场，恐龙被发在一种叫做泥、粉砂或页东西中，这些石颗粒非常细，代表着安静水环境。

So not only do we see fine-grained mudstones in terrestrial settings, but we also see them in marine settings as well.

因此，我们不仅在陆地环境中看到细粒泥，而且在海洋环境中也看到了它们。