After three years, finally, we were able to show that, in fact, our little rock was geyserite.

三后，终于，我们能够证明，事实上，我们的小石头是硅华。

Now, in order for you to understand the significance of geyserite, I need to take you back a couple of centuries.

， 了让你们理解硅华的重要性，我需要把你们带回几个世纪前。

It took six months before we inspected this rock under a microscope, when one of my mentors at the time, Malcolm Walter, suggested the rock resembled geyserite.

花了六个月的时间， 我们才显微镜下检查这块岩石，当时我的导师之一马尔科姆·沃尔特建议这块岩石类似于硅华。