Time and Thought were my surveyors, They laid their courses well, They boiled the sea, and baked the layers Or granite, marl, and shell.

时间与思想将我检验，铺设们美好的进程，们煮沸大海，烧硬岩层 或花岗岩、泥灰岩和地壳。

It is a kind of marl, of a brown or reddish color.

种泥灰岩，呈棕色或微红色。

But the marl is made up of a bunch of different weird stuff like algae and microbes and calcium carbonate, and it's a very specific kind of mud or dirt, basically, that feeds a lot of very diverse wildlife.

但泥灰岩由各种怪的东西组成的， 比如藻类、微生物和碳酸钙，基本种非常特殊的泥或土，能够滋养很多种类多样的野生动物。

There was clay or soft marl mixed with the chalk, and every here and there I saw the same footstep, both ascending and descending.

有粘土或软泥灰岩与粉笔混合在起， 我到处都看到相同的脚步声， 既有升也有下降。

Cuvier described this animal as " the crocodile from the Marl of Argenton" which sounds a lot more regal in French.

居维叶将这种动物描述为“来自阿热松泥灰岩的鳄鱼”，在法语中听起来要尊贵得多。