犹他州大阶梯 Twilight Over Grand Staircase

Twilight Over Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument,Utah, 犹他州，大阶梯——埃斯卡兰特国家历史文物保护区的黎明 1997


中文注释：（网友翻译，有待改进，请跟帖发表自己看法）
时间&地点：1996年，犹他州，大阶梯——埃斯卡兰特国家历史文物保护区的黎明
摄影：Diane Cook and Len Jenshel

深红色的曙光笼罩在犹他州大阶梯——埃斯卡兰特国家历史文物保护区上空，使得这里的景色像火星一样。作为仅存的一个面积如同特拉华州大小般的遗迹，该保护区无疑是宽阔和荒野的。一位观察家曾写到：该峡谷的任何地方，由于受到几百万年的溪流冲击，使得这些已有2.5亿年历史的彩色砂岩堆积层被雕刻成了条状。



  


英文注释：
Photograph by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel

Crimson twilight gives a Martian air to Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. With just one maintained trail in an area the size of Delaware, this monument is decidedly big and wild. Wrote one observer: “Almost everywhere, the benchlands lay sliced with canyons-deep wounds that millions of years of flowing water have carved into a quarter billion years’ worth of multicolored sandstone deposits.”

(Text from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Celebrating Canyon Country,” July 1999, National Geographic magazine)





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