【英文原文】

Antarctica, Beacon Valley Frost, 1998

"A giant jigsaw puzzle of stone and soil shaped by frost paves Beacon Valley. The age of volcanic ash here shows little has changed in millions of years. 'Antarctica holds the answers,' says geologist Dave Marchant, who seeks clue to Earth's past. 'They're just hidden.'"

—From "Timeless Valleys of the Antarctic Desert," October 1998, National Geographic magazine

【中文翻译】

由冰冻形成的岩石和土壤像一个巨大的拼图玩具覆盖着必肯峡谷。这里的火山灰年龄表明在百万年里它几乎没有变化。探索地球过去的地质学家戴夫?默森特说：“南极洲拥有一切答案。他们只是被隐藏了。

---摘自1998年《国家地理杂志》10月号《南极沙漠中永恒的峡谷》

作者： Maria Stenzel 来源：http://www.ngpod.cn 《国家地理》杂志