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It's a land of gorges, canyons and barren rock
那里到處是峽谷，溪谷和廢石
covering thousands of square miles.
大概四千平方公里的區域
It's known as the Scablands.
這里是著名的火山地帶
Vic Baker is a geologist who has spent 40 years
維克貝克是一位地質學家他花了四十年時間
trying to discover exactly what took place here.
探索這里發生了什么
The landscape creates this impression of something fantastic that happened,
這里的地貌不禁讓我們產生這樣的想法：這里發生了什么奇妙的事情
and as you drive through it, you can have a sense
你開車經過這里，你就會感覺到
that you're following the path of that great catastrophe.
你正開在發生過可怕的大災難的地方
Around 16,000 years ago, a giant lake formed, Lake Missoula
,一萬六千年前，一個巨大的湖泊--密蘇拉湖形成了
that was held back by nothing more than a wall of ice,
那時候當地只有如圍墻般的冰層
a part of what's known as the Cordilleran ice sheet.
它是著名的北部大冰原的一部分
Behind me would be the ice dam
我的背后便是冰壩
that was holding in glacial Lake Missoula
那是冰河時期的密蘇拉湖
and it was holding back a phenomenal amount of water.
它含有相當大量的水資源
As the huge mass of water built up behind the dam year after year,the dam began to weaken.
一年接著一年，大量的水資源成為水壩的一部分 水壩開始變得脆弱
Until the ice gave way in a catastrophic failure.
而后冰層災難性的塌陷
A mass of water larger than lakes Eerie and Ontario combined.
愛爾蘭海大量的海水
The force of water rushing forward was like releasing a bomb.
無所阻擋的奔騰水流的沖擊力如同炸彈般
It generated a Shockwave of air.
產生一種空氣沖擊波
