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Renovo, Pennsylvania is what happens at the end of the railway line
賓夕法尼亞州的雷諾沃位于鐵道線的終點
when the trains don't come any more,
火車已不再駛來
but the town is rich in something rare and precious.
但是這個小鎮(zhèn)卻有很多稀有而珍貴的東西
Beneath the trees are swathes of red Devonian sandstone.
森林的下面是紅色的泥盆紀(jì)沙巖斷層
So in 1993 along came a lone fossil hunter. He is called Ted Daeschler.
1993年，一位化石專家獨自來到這里。他名叫Ted Daeschler
Daeschler made his name finding two more new Devonian tetrapod species in a roadside cutting called Red Hill,
Daeschler為兩種新發(fā)現(xiàn)的泥盆紀(jì)四足動物起了名字，它們是在被稱為“紅丘”的路邊斷壁上發(fā)現(xiàn)的
but the thing that took both him and Red Hill into fossil hunting legend
不過使他和紅丘在化石搜尋界一舉成名的原因
was when he examined one of the site's peculiar features.
卻是他對這里一處獨特地貌的分析
In amongst all the red rock was a broad green layer.
在所有紅色巖層中，都有一個寬闊的綠色地層
OK, the majority of the rock out here at Red Hill of course is red.
紅丘中的大部分巖石當(dāng)然都是紅色的
Climbing up through sandstones, silt here, sandstones and mudstones
一路往上爬，可以看到沙巖，這是淤泥，沙巖和泥巖
right into this zone up here we start with a green layer.
到了這一地帶，我們開始見到綠色地層
It's reduced probably because of all of the plant material that's buried within the rock here.
它們變成這樣很可能是因為巖層中埋有各種各樣的植物
