在1987年的一次例行探险中，一群海洋学家在南加州海岸外，通过潜水器阿尔文潜入海底，为圣卡塔利娜盆地描绘那典型的贫瘠、荒芜的海底地貌。
On a routine expedition in 1987, oceanographers in the submersible Alvin were mapping the typically barren, nutrient-poor seafloor in the Santa Catalina Basin, off the shore of southern California.
在劳伦斯盆地和富饶的大草原之间是一块巨大的、在当时很显然是荒芜的土地。
A huge and at that time apparently barren waste intervenes between the St. Lawrence basin and the fertile prairie.
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