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窗格，他却发现他们已经严重破裂，就像所有达勒姆古老那样。

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道，国家公里有世界上最密集拱门。

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

水从土壤和石缝隙滴下来，流过、石灰，以及玄武，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.

在他们看来，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沉积层存在，它们散布在中。

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

然后才轮到子，冲积到此形成。

The sandstone should not have been here.

不应该在这里。