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It's a country known to contain Permian rock, but always considered too difficult to explore.
那里以富含二疊紀巖石而聞名，但一直被認為是一個探索的艱險之地。
In the late 1990s, he took a gamble and flew out there.
上世紀90年代末，他孤注一擲飛往該地考察。
Piled all our stuff onto a helicopter, flew out into this wilderness,
把所有資料帶上直升機飛進這片荒野，
they dropped us in the middle of nowhere and left us there for several weeks.
他們把我們載到一片空曠地，我們在那里一呆就是幾個星期。
Their first task was to find the Permian rock.
他們的第一項任務是找到二疊紀巖層。
Nobody even knew where it was.
他們甚至不知道它在哪。
Some of us had never been there before, and we weren't exactly sure where we needed to look.
我們中有些人從沒到過那兒，我們根本不知道該去哪里找。
We had a lot of exploration, a lot of wandering around to do before we knew what we were looking for.
我們在找到它之前還要進行大量探險，走很多路。
But finally they found what they had come for.
最后他們終于找到了目標。
It exceeded their widest dreams.
它大大出乎他們的意料。
Instead of the usual narrow band of rock strata,
與平常所見的狹窄巖層不同的是，
the sediments containing the record of the extinction stretched for meters above and below them.
包含大滅絕記錄的沉積巖層，上下伸展了數米多寬。
It was one of the best records of the Permian mass extinction ever found
它是記錄二疊紀生物大滅絕最完整的巖層之一。
