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走进神秘的落基山脉第4期:落基山的岩石

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上次的攀岩结束后,咱们今天就去一探究竟,这平顶脊(熨斗形岩石)是怎么形成的,这样子的岩石山还真的很特立独行,Daisy我很好奇哦。你呢?说不定咱们要去实验室走一趟呢?拭目以待吧。

Taking a closer look, Lester can found out more about the surroundings they formed in.

"These were not just deposited in any kind of sedimentary situation, but they were deposited in rivers capable of transporting big particles and busting them up as it goes along."

Sheets of sand and gravel built up a thick sedimentary bed like a layered cake. But stream deposits are rarely more than a few degrees from horizontal.

"These rocks you can see the layers, and layers in the Flatiron behind me are 60 degrees."

Something caused these vast slabs to be tilted. The investigation moves ten miles northeast to Flagstaff Mountain located in the outer ranges of the Colorado Rockies.

"I'm standing here right next to a miniature of Flatiron. It's tilted like the Flatirons at about 60 degrees. It's steep. How did it get that way if it was originally a stream gravel deposit?"

The answer lies in the darker rock underneath. It is granite and looks completely different to the Flatiron rock above.

"There's no layering in this rock, unlike the Flatiron rock which does have layering. There's no pebbles in this rock, unlike the Flatiron rock which does have pebbles."

A close-up investigation of the granite reveals that it is full of minerals. This offers another clue to how the Rockies emerged.

"So I’ve picked up this granite here. And taking a look at it, I see quartz and feldspar and a little bit of mica in here, very characteristic of a rock like this that has cooled from a magma, from a liquid rock."

Among the minerals is iron. It is responsible for the dark color of the rock. The precise quantity of iron tells scientists the depth at which the rock was formed.

"So we've taken this rock into the laboratory and we do the chemistry on this rock, and we can actually determine that not only did it cool and crystallize at depth, that depth we can estimate at about 15 miles down."

小编有约:呵呵~~Daisy今天的问题是什么呢?假设咱们是实验员,正好你知道了岩石中铁元素的准确含量,那就等于知道了什么?好好想想在看答案!

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n. 预备品,贮存,候补
n. 克制,含蓄

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precise [pri'sais]

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adj. 精确的,准确的,严格的,恰好的

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bust [bʌst]

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n. 半身像,胸部,萧条,破产 v. 打碎

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tilted

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adj. 倾斜的,翘起的 v. 使倾斜(tilt的过去分

 
liquid ['likwid]

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vast [vɑ:st]

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steep [sti:p]

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