图为石灰石泉华柱耸立在加利福尼亚的莫诺湖之滨。
Spires of limestone tufa rise from the shores of California's Mono Lake.
莫诺湖位于内华达山脉东侧395和120公路交界处。
Mono Lake is located on the east side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains at the junction of Highways 395 and 120.
钙华塔升高得像巨型的沙堡，它正在窥视着莫诺湖的表面。
The tufa towers rise like giant sand castles, peeking above Mono Lake's surface.
莫诺湖的高茎草和灌木林沿着凝灰岩地层的底部生长起来。
Mono Lake's tall grasses and shrubbery are shown growing along the bottom of this tufa formation.
这些叫做石灰华的碳酸钙塔是在加州莫诺湖的水下形成的。
These calcium carbonate towers, called tufas, formed underwater in California's Mono Lake.
这些独特的“塔”（钙华塔）最集中地积聚在莫诺湖的南端。
The greatest concentration of these unique "towers" is located at the south end of the lake.
因此他们从加利福尼亚的莫诺湖收集了一些泥土。莫诺湖水天然带咸并含砷。
So they collected mud from California's Mono Lake, where the waters are naturally salty, and laced with arsenic.
莫诺湖之所以会出现如此独特的景致，是因为分洪使得湖水水位降低，从而露出了更多的石柱。
Mono lake's tufa are particularly dramatic because water diversions have significantly lowered the lake's level, exposing more of the columns.
据美国地质调查局，莫诺湖是一个更大的、称为罗素湖的更新世湖的遗迹。这里显示了湖面上的日出。
Mono lake is what remains of a much larger Pleistocene lake known as lake Russell, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Here, the lake is shown at sunrise.
像照片中的这些钙华塔一度曾被淹没，然而当湖水改道流入洛杉矶渡槽而在莫诺湖的水面降低的时候，它们会逐渐开始显露出来。
Towers like these were once submerged, but gradually began to become visible as water was diverted into the Los Angeles Aqueduct and the surface level of Mono Lake fell.
例如，一个新发现的称为黑曾石的矿物，是以黑曾的名字命名的，它仅仅由于一种生活在加利福尼亚州莫诺湖酸性水域的微生物产生的磷酸盐而形成。
For example, a newly discovered mineral called hazenite, named for Hazen, forms only because of phosphate produced by a microorganism that lives in the acidic waters of Mono Lake in California.
这些浅灰色和象牙形的“钙华塔”，位于美国加州的莫诺湖，它们可能看起来像是令人毛骨悚然的艺术灌注物，然而它们是在自然界里由石灰岩所构成的。
These pale gray and ivory "tufa towers," located in California's Mono Lake, may look like eerie art instillations, but they occur naturally and are made of limestone.
在两个月之前湖人得到了现弄布朗，在那时大多数的报纸标题都是这样的：湖人用拉德玛诺维奇交换来了夏洛特的莫里森。
When the Lakers acquired Shannon Brown two months ago, most of the headlines read something like this: Lakers trade Vladimir Radmanovic to Charlotte for Adam Morrison.
在两个月之前湖人得到了现弄布朗，在那时大多数的报纸标题都是这样的：湖人用拉德玛诺维奇交换来了夏洛特的莫里森。
When the Lakers acquired Shannon Brown two months ago, most of the headlines read something like this: Lakers trade Vladimir Radmanovic to Charlotte for Adam Morrison.
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