当他们到达海岸，一个瘦长的、黝黑的、身上沾著些许海盐的26岁青年溅踏着水面，并爬上一堆破碎的玄武岩。
As they approached the shore, a lanky, suntanned, salt-encrusted 26-year-old stepped out with a splash and clambered up onto a jumble of broken basalt.
大部分结晶岩石都非常坚硬，但也有例外，最常见的就是玄武岩，它是一种火山岩浆凝固后的形态，内部充满了微小的气泡，因此也具有多孔渗水的特点。
Most crystalline rocks are much more solid; a common exception is basalt, a form of solidified volcanic lava, which is sometimes full of tiny bubbles that make it very porous.
在水下，火山依旧持续喷发，向上喷射岩浆并形成了一座座玄武岩山峰。
Under the water, volcanoes continued to erupt, sending up magma and forming mountains of basalt.
玄武岩同样可以提供泉水，最具代表性的是在约旦和叙利亚边界的Jabal Al-Arab 河。
Basaltic rocks also support springs, notably at the Jabal Al-Arab on the Jordan-Syria border.
完整的斑状斑状橄榄石玄武岩和火山碎屑岩是最近火山活动的更新世的组成部分。
The holocrystalline porphyritic olivine basalts and pyroclastic rocks are the components of Pleistocene to recent volcanic activities.
在冰岛，绝大多数的岩石都是玄武岩，这种岩石含有丰富的钙元素和镁元素。
Most of Iceland's rock is basalt, a type that is rich in both calcium and magnesium.
在环绕大多数大陆的海底及内陆地区也能找到玄武岩。
Basalt is also found on the seafloor surrounding most continents, as well as inland.
然而构成这种岩石的化学元素十分的复杂，因此根据常规的岩石分析得出出现在玄武岩里的金属都是其氧化产物。
The actual chemical make-up of rocks is complex, so the conventions of petrological analysis pretend that these metals are present in basalt as their oxides.
就灶神星而言，望远镜曾发现过它表面喷发过玄武岩岩浆的证据。
In the case of Vesta, telescopes have spied evidence for the eruption of lava (basalt) on its surface.
俄勒冈州的飞流瀑布的纯净冰水流过苔藓覆盖着的柱状玄武岩。
The pure glacial waters of Oregon's Proxy Falls flows over the moss covered columnar basalt.
然后，我们想出了主意，为了做到这一点，对于这些巨大变化，[月亮]必须是干燥的，当这些玄武岩岩浆结晶。
We then came up with the idea that in order for this to happen, to have these huge variations, the [Moon] must have been dry when these basalts crystallised from magma.
橄榄岩不是唯一对二氧化碳情有独钟的岩石，如今，研究者们正在对冰岛的火山玄武岩进行一项新的研究。
Nor is it the only rock with carbon-eating potential. The researchers are now looking at volcanic basalt in a new project in Iceland.
他们希望了解二氧化碳水溶液与玄武岩产生化学反应形成碳酸钙的速度有多快。
They hope to learn how quickly the carbon dioxide and water mixture reacts with the basalt rock to form calcium carbonate.
前面所提的NPR访谈把怎样把二氧化碳用玄武岩将其储藏在海洋底解释的非常清楚。
The aforementioned NPR interview does an excellent job of explaining how carbon would be stored underneath the ocean in basalt rock formations.
当然，并不是所有的地方都分布着玄武岩。
科学家们认为这块区域是一处低幅度的盾形火山，深色的岩石是玄武岩。
It is believed to be a low-relief shield volcano, and its dark color comes from basaltic volcanic rock.
在这幅图像中黑色玄武岩沙带被从冰层下面显露出来，在季节性冰盖的顶部形成扇形堆积。
In this image streaks of dark basaltic sand have been carried frombelow the ice layer to form fan-shaped deposits on top of the seasonalice.
海洋板块的岩石，玄武岩，以及覆盖其表面的沉积物被拉沉到海洋底部，充当移动大陆的传送带机制的一部分。
The ocean floor rock, basalt, along with the sediment that built up on top of it, was drawn down at the edge of an ocean as part of the conveyor-belt mechanism that moves the continents.
水聚集在玄武岩地壳的低洼处形成了海洋。
Water fills in low areas of the basalt crust to form the world's oceans.
但是在水下，火山依旧喷发，滚滚岩浆形成了玄武岩的山脉。
But under the water, volcanoes continued to erupt, sending up magma and forming mountains of basalt.
冰岛的岩石大多是玄武岩，富含钙和镁。
Most of Iceland’s rock is basalt, a type that is rich in both calcium and magnesium.
陆地地壳主要由花岗岩和其它轻质硅酸盐矿物构成，而海底则主要由黑色的高密度火山岩——玄武岩构成。
The dry land of the continents consists mostly of granite and other light silicate minerals, while the ocean floors are made up mostly of a dark, dense volcanic rock called basalt.
橄榄岩像玄武岩一样和二氧化碳饱和溶液发生化学反应后能迅速生成矿物质，其中一些含有碳。
Like basalt, peridotite chemically reacts with carbon dioxide-saturated water to quickly form minerals, some of which contain carbon.
而玄武岩是地球上最常见的岩层，形成了10%的大陆壳。
Basalt is one of the Earth's most common rock formations, making up 10 percent of the continental crusts.
玄武岩已经碎裂了，形成了所谓的“宪兵”。
就在我们远眺处的下方，黝黑的沟状脊代表了另外一种50万年的沉积层，更远处铺满了玄武岩，520万年前，这块巨大的平原被淹没在火山岩浆之中。
Below us dark, gullied ridges held another half million years of sediments. Beyond them was the basalt, laid down when this vast plain was swamped in lava, 5.2 million years ago.
当然，不是所有的地方都有玄武岩，也没人提议将二氧化碳运到冰岛去就为了处理它们。
Not everywhere is blessed with basalt, of course. And no one is suggesting shipping CO2 to Iceland just to get rid of it.
ESSafa地处叙利亚首都大马士革东南方，它是那么引人注目的玄武岩地质火山区。
Es Safa is a striking basaltic volcanic field located to the south-east of Damascus, Syria.
ESSafa地处叙利亚首都大马士革东南方，它是那么引人注目的玄武岩地质火山区。
Es Safa is a striking basaltic volcanic field located to the south-east of Damascus, Syria.
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