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

所及之处，色彩鲜艳的泥岩和粘土覆盖着陆地。

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

所以，下次当你在砂岩或泥岩附近时，想一想会隐藏着什么被等待人类发现的化石吧。

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

它坐落在一块叫做泥岩的深色岩顶上。

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化合物的泥岩。

Or shale, a mixture of hardened clay and mud.

或者泥岩，一种硬化了的黏土和泥的混合物。

Burney beaches have real funky kind of mud rocks.

伯尼的海滩上有真正奇特的泥岩。

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

例如，大量积聚的沙子形成砂岩，或泥浆形成泥岩。

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化石——这片地层由泥岩、砂岩和火山灰组成，可以追溯2200年前的中新世。

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

我们称由泥土、泥岩或有时页岩制成的岩石。

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

我们有泥岩和非常细粒的沉积物，以及它们如何化石化、结核和胶结作用。

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

泥岩鱼… … 贝壳鱼… … 壳——因为泥岩是一种岩石？

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

因此，泥岩往往位于更远端的环境中，因此离岸更远。

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

沉积岩有多种形式，砂岩、泥岩、页岩、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.

最早已知的广翅亚是一种生活在4.45亿年前的小型物种，在南非的泥岩中被发现。

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，恐龙被发现在一种叫做泥岩、粉砂岩或页岩的东西中，这些岩石的颗粒非常细，代表着安静的水环境。

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细粒泥岩，而且在海洋环境中也看了它们。