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Judy Parish has devoted her career to studying the climates of the past.
Judy Parish一輩子都在研究古氣候
It's sort of like mystery novels, so this is a little bit like a detective story,
這就像是懸疑小說，有點(diǎn)類似于偵探小說的情節(jié)
putting together bits and pieces of information to figure out what the world was really like in the past.
將各種各樣的線索放在一起，然后推理出古代世界的情形
It's really fascinating the idea of this super-continent
關(guān)于超大陸的觀點(diǎn)確實(shí)很吸引人
and just the fact that it would have to have, have to have a major effect on climate,
事實(shí)上它很有可能對氣候有很大的影響
so I got really interested in how this might develop.
所以我很有興趣想看看這如何發(fā)生
These spectacular cliffs by the Colorado River in the United States are from just before the super-continent split apart.
聳立在美國科羅拉多河兩岸的壯麗懸崖，剛好形成于超大陸分裂之前
This makes them just the right age to unravel this climatological mystery.
因此它們有合適的年份以解開氣候之謎
Geologists have known for a long time that there was something really odd about the climate of this time period.
長期以來，地質(zhì)學(xué)家都對這段時(shí)期的氣候狀況感到奇怪
It's in these rocks that we can really figure out what the climate was like.
但在這些巖石中，我們能找出氣候的真實(shí)情況
Judy's spent years trying to decipher the clues locked inside these 200 million year old rocks,
Judy數(shù)年來都在破解這些埋在2億年古老巖石中的線索
but what she found was something very puzzling.
但是她的發(fā)現(xiàn)卻令人困惑不解。
