在这种碳酸的帮助下,流动的水创造了世界上大部分的石灰岩洞穴。
With a little help from this carbonic acid, moving water forms most of the world's limestone caves.
如果洞穴里有流动的水,它会溶解石膏。
If there were flowing water in the cave, it would dissolve the gypsum.
然而,在20世纪80年代后期,一些科学家在美国西部的内华达探索魔鬼洞,这基本上是一个广阔的充满水的洞穴,并且远离海洋。
However, in the late 1980s, some scientists were exploring Devil' s Hole, which is basically an extensive water-filled cave, far from the ocean, in Nevada2, in the western United States.
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