No? well, I thought that from the perspective of a field trip, one thing i needed to focus on was the sandstone plateaux and cliffs themselves.

不能吗？我认为从实地考察角度，有一件事我需要关注是砂岩高原和悬崖。

And the wind gives the sandstone its original form.

而风赋予砂岩原始形态。

The walls and the mullioned windows were built of the local sandstone.

墙壁和竖框窗户都是用当地砂岩建造。

Then we transitioned from that crater floor into the sedimentary deposits and now we're here in sandstones, conglomerates, mud stones, the kinds of rocks that are deposited by flowing water.

然后我们从火山口底部过渡到沉积沉积物，现在我们在这里看到砂岩，砾岩，泥石，这些是由流水沉积岩石。

The early Cretaceous fossils that we find in Maryland are preserved in sandstones and clay-stones.

我们在马里兰发现白垩纪早期化石保存在砂岩和粘土岩中。

This sandstone rock is the size of three school buses.

这块砂岩大小与三辆校车相当。

To build the top two floors we had to demolish a building nearby to get out the dressed red sandstone and so we stockpiled it on the front lawn and we had it to build the top two floors.

为建造上层，我们不得不拆除附近一栋建筑来获得红砂岩料石，我们把它堆放在前院，作为建造上层材料。

The fossil was found in a piece of soft stone, called sandstone.

化石是在一种名为砂岩软岩中发现。

And one of the oldest terrestrial minerals ever found, quite possibly the oldest piece of the earth we know of, happens to be a very lead-filled grain of zircon found embedded in sandstone in Western Australia.

有史以来发现最古老陆地矿物之一，很可能是我们所知道地球上最古老一块，恰好是嵌入澳大利亚西部砂岩中非常铅含量锆石颗粒。

I lead the way up through the woods, over the sheep fields, and down through the gardens, pointing out the ruined Roman bath house and the sandstone walls of Muncaster Castle as proudly as if I'd built them myself.

我领着路，穿过树林，越过牧羊场，再向下穿过花园，指着荒废罗马浴场和蒙卡斯特城堡砂岩墙，骄傲得仿佛它们是我亲手建造。

So this spectacular sandstone city of Petra was built by the Nabataeans in the third century BC where they carved temples, tombs, and stables into the soft stone cliffs.

这个壮观砂岩城市佩特拉是由纳巴泰人在公元前三世纪建造，他们将寺庙、陵墓和马厩雕刻在柔软石崖中。

They're all located in the southeast of the country and are connected to the greater Nubian sandstone aquifer that also extends across Egypt, Chad, and Sudan.

它们都位于该国东南部，与大努比亚砂岩含水层相连，努比亚砂岩含水层也延伸到埃及、乍得和苏丹。

For more than one hundred years, scientists believed that Stonehenge's central sandstone slab - long called the " altar stone" - came from much closer Wales.

一百多年来，科学家们一直认为巨石阵中央砂岩板——长期以来被称为“祭坛石”——来自距离更近威士。

The majority of the pottery, bronze items, stone tools, beads and sandstone molds were taken from the Ban Chiang UNESCO World Heritage site in northeast Thailand.

这些工艺品大多数是陶器、青铜器, 石器, 珠子及砂岩模具，它们都是从泰国东北部班清联合国教科文组织世界遗产地中被带走。

For more than a hundred years, scientists believed that Stonehenge's central sandstone slab - long called the " altar stone" - came from much closer Wales.

一百多年来，科学家们一直认为，巨石阵中心砂岩板——长期以来被称为“祭坛石”——来自更近威士。

The delicate sandstone feature known as " The Wave" near Kanab, Utah, can cope with only a trickle of visitors without suffering rapid erosion.

犹他州卡纳布附近被称为“波浪谷”精致砂岩地貌，只有应付少量游客才不会遭受快速侵蚀。

Geochemists at Columbia University found a lode of quartzite, a metamorphic rock formed from sandstone, on the Indian Ocean island of Anjouan.

哥伦比亚大学地球化学家在印度洋昂儒昂岛上发现一个石英岩矿脉，石英岩是由砂岩形成变质岩。

The area is known for U.F.O. sightings, and its arid terrain, dotted with crimson sandstone outcroppings, has often been likened to Mars.

该地区已观测到不明飞行物而闻名，这片不毛之地上点缀着深红色砂岩，常常被比作火星。

Since then they have been pressed together so hard and for so long a time that they now form a sandstone rock.

但是后来，这些沙子用极大力量挤在一起，挤很久，最后就形成砂岩。

But in this deposit, the bones occur throughout a zone of sandstone about 12 feet thick.

但在沉积物中，骨头出现在整个砂岩区，大约12英尺厚。