Local people have also carved out over two hundred caves in the soft rock, and use them for everything from sacred burial places to food storage.

当地人还在这块松软的岩石上凿出了200多个洞穴。它们有着各种各样的用途，用作神圣的墓地也用作食物储藏室。

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The Earth's crust is thought to be divided into huge, movable segments, called plates, which float on a soft plastic layer of rock.

人们认为地壳分成了巨大的、可移动的部分，称为板块，这些板块漂浮在柔软可塑的岩石层上。

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The sample consisted of pebbles of hardened sediment that had once been soft, deep-sea mud, as well as granules of gypsum and fragments of volcanic rock.

这一样本包括曾经柔软的的硬化沉积物的卵石、深海淤泥以及石膏颗粒和火山岩碎片。

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The canyon walls are made of a soft rock called tuff.

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A soft rock called sandstone began moving under this pressure.

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After thousands of years the ash became a soft rock.

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Potash is a soft rock, which is extracted from sedimentary sea beds formed by evaporation of ancient seas, which is mined via conventional shaft mining like gold and silver.

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There will also be an outing for London club night Guilty Pleasures, which has come to public attention by championing soft rock classics and other untrendy songs from the 1970s and 1980s.

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It will be challenging for the company as it transitions from soft-rock mining to hard-rock mining.

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