科罗拉多河花岗岩急湍,亚利桑那州,2005

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科罗拉多河花岗岩急湍,亚利桑那州,2005
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中文注释:

科罗拉多河滚滚而过大峡谷国家公园的峭壁悬崖,这张加时曝光的照片模糊了摩卡色的泥浊河水。而今已被驯服的科罗拉多在过去的六百万年间在崖壁上留下了刻画,揭露了过去两亿年间留在岩层中北美地质历史的详细资料。

一个峡谷徒步者所说,在那里我能够构及,触摸到亿万年前生命起源时候就存在的一片土地,这使得大峡谷地显得异常神圣。

作者: Michael Nichols

亚利桑那州   科罗拉多河  

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英文注释:

Colorado River at Granite Rapids, Arizona, 2005

A time-lapse image blurs the silty, mocha-colored waters of the Colorado River as it flows through sheer cliffs in Grand Canyon National Park. The now tame Colorado carved these steep walls over the last six million years, exposing rock strata that detail nearly two billion years of North America's geologic history.

Wrote one canyon trekker: "[T]hat I could reach down and touch a part of the Earth that existed when life itself was a mere billion-plus years old made this big cliff land seem very holy indeed."

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Unexpected Canyon," January 2006, National Geographic magazine)


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