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Washington State: 750 million years ago.
華盛頓州：7億5000萬年前
A force deep inside the planet rips the crust to pieces.
地球深處的一股力量撕裂地殼，
It's as though the world is breaking apart.
世界仿佛四分五裂，
And there's only one force powerful enough to do this, heat.
只有一種力量有這個本事，熱。
It escapes from the Earth's molten core,
熱從融化的地心溢出，
stretching and weakening the crust.
使得地殼伸展變?nèi)酢?/p>
Inch by inch, year by year, the great super-continent is splitting in two.
每年移動數(shù)公分，這的巨大的超大陸一分為二，
The intense geological activity spawns a mass of volcanoes.
劇烈地質(zhì)活動制造大量火山，
They pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
火山向大氣輸送二氧化碳
The carbon dioxide mixes with water, and creates acid rain.
二氧化碳與水結(jié)合變成酸雨，
When the continent tore apart, many rocks were exposed.
大陸分裂時露出來的巖石數(shù)量極多，
These rocks absorb the acid rain, including its carbon dioxide.
巖石吸收酸雨，包括其中的二氧化碳。
Vast quantities of CO2 are absorbed out of the atmosphere.
大氣中的二氧化碳被大量吸出。
Now, there's not enough carbon dioxide in the
大氣沒有足夠的二氧化碳，
air to trap the sun's heat around the planet.
留住輸送到地球的太陽熱能。
