【英文原文】

Antarctica, Beacon Valley Frost, 1998

"A giant jigsaw puzzle of stone and soil shaped by frost paves Beacon Valley. The age of volcanic ash here shows little has changed in millions of years. 'Antarctica holds the answers,' says geologist Dave Marchant, who seeks clue to Earth's past. 'They're just hidden.'"

—From "Timeless Valleys of the Antarctic Desert," October 1998, National Geographic magazine

【中文翻譯】

由冰凍形成的巖石和土壤像一個巨大的拼圖玩具覆蓋著必肯峽谷。這里的火山灰年齡表明在百萬年里它幾乎沒有變化。探索地球過去的地質學家戴夫?默森特說：“南極洲擁有一切答案。他們只是被隱藏了。

---摘自1998年《國家地理雜志》10月號《南極沙漠中永恒的峽谷》

作者： Maria Stenzel 來源：http://www.ngpod.cn 《國家地理》雜志