Spires of limestone tufa rise from the shores of California's Mono Lake.
图为石灰石泉华柱耸立在加利福尼亚的莫诺湖之滨。
These calcium carbonate towers, called tufas, formed underwater in California's Mono Lake.
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。
Mono Lake is located on the east side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains at the junction of Highways 395 and 120.
莫诺湖位于内华达山脉东侧395和120公路交界处。
Mono Lake has a lot of phosphorus as well as arsenic, and the strain grows better when supplied with phosphorus.
Mono湖含有大量砷元素的同时也含有大量磷元素，GFAJ-1菌株在提供磷的时候也长得更好。
So they collected mud from California's Mono Lake, where the waters are naturally salty, and laced with arsenic.
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。
Tufa, the unusual rock formations that jut out of Mono Lake in California's Eastern Sierra, are famous for their otherworldly beauty.
凝灰岩，是突出在加利福尼亚州的东部雪乐山的莫诺湖面的不同寻常的岩层，以其超凡脱俗的美丽而闻名于世。
instead, they had gone to the arsenic-laced waters of Mono Lake in California and isolated a strain of bacteria they dubbed GFAJ-1.
相反，他们只是去过加利福尼亚州的Mono湖，考察了被掺入砷的水，并由此分解出一个被戏称为GFAJ-1的细菌类型。
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.
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。
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.
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。
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.
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。
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.
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。
Researchers conducting tests in the harsh environment of Mono Lake in California have discovered the first known microorganism on Earth able to thrive and reproduce using the toxic chemical arsenic.
在加州的Mono河一带恶劣的环境下进行实验的研究人员用有毒的化学物质砷发现了地球上已知的第一个可以生长和繁殖的细菌。
Researchers conducting tests in the harsh environment of Mono Lake in California have discovered the first known microorganism on Earth able to thrive and reproduce using the toxic chemical arsenic.
在加州的Mono河一带恶劣的环境下进行实验的研究人员用有毒的化学物质砷发现了地球上已知的第一个可以生长和繁殖的细菌。
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