Now, try to imagine 1,000 million years! 现在试着想象10亿年(有多长)! At that time there were no large animals, just creatures like snails and worms. 当时还没有巨型动物,只有蜗牛和虫这样的生物。 And before then t

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Japanese Spacecraft Arrives at Asteroid to Study Surface A Japanese spacecraft arrived at an asteroid Wednesday after traveling for more than three years. The Hayabusa2 spacecraft is to perform a new experiment. It will create a crater on the asteroi

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MARGARET WARNER:Finally tonight: Just how old is the Grand Canyon? The conventional wisdom holds that this natural wonder of the world was shaped by the Colorado River about five or six million years ago. But there's been a long-running debate over w

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[00:02.58]Big Rocks 人生的大石头 [00:04.50] One day, an expert in time management was speaking to a group of students , [00:10.85]and to drive home a point, [00:13.12]used an illustration those students will never forget. [00:16.53] As he stood in fr

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EXPLORATIONS - Visiting Four National Parks in the State of Utah FAITH LAPIDUS: I'm Faith Lapidus. STEVE EMBER: And I'm Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we explore some national parks of great beauty in the American West.

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Vilakazi Street will be the scene of much celebration as the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa unfolds Schoolboys, their disheveled uniforms streaked with dust and faces dripping with sweat, boot a football across the road. Young children saunt

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KAILI, Guizhou, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers have reached the scene of a landslide that buried five people on Monday in southwest China's Guizhou Province, but rescue work was hampered by debris falling from the mountain. More than 400 rescuers have

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This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. Last August, NASA's Curiosity Rover staked its claim in Gale Crater on the surface of Mars, and since then it's been cruising around, zapping rocks, sniffing the Martian air and snapping some self-portraits. Bu

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In the same yearin fact, the same monththat the aristocratic and celebrated Cuvier was propounding his extinction theories in Paris, on the other side of the English Channel a rather more obscure Englishman was having an insight into the value of fos

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Moreover, all this applies only to units of time . Rocks are divided into quite separate units known as systems, series, and stages. A distinction is also made between late and early (referring to time) and upper and lower (referring to layers of roc

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It was while puzzling over these matters that Hutton had a series of exceptional insights. From looking at his own farmland, he could see that soil was created by the erosion of rocks and that particles of this soil were continually washed away and c

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The big rocks大石块One day an expert in time management was speaking to a group of business students and, to drive home a point, used an illustration those students will never forget. As he stood in front of the group of high-powered over-achiever

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The One With Two Parties 本集简介: Rachel's surprise birthday party is split in two to keep her divorcing parents from running into each other. Monica makes flan instead of cake. Phoebe smuggles guests out of Monica's boring party and into Chand

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Bob told me that it takes about seventeen minutes to read one zircon and it is necessary to read dozens from each rock to make the data reliable. 鲍勃对我说,识读一块锆石的数据大约要花17分钟;这了取得可靠的数据,每块锆

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Compston's machine allowed such rocks to be dated with unparalleled precision. 康普斯森的仪器能以无与伦比的精确度测定这些岩石的年代。 The prototype SHRIMP was built and machined in the Earth Science department's own worksho

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For seven years, first at the University of Chicago and then at the California Institute of Technology (where he moved in 1952), he worked in a sterile lab, making very precise measurements of the lead/uranium ratios in carefully selected samples of

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Todd: So, Greg, do you have any stories about being lost, since you have all this good advice? Greg: Ah, well, let me think. Ah, there was one time I got lost in the mountains of the Golden Triangle in Thailand. The Golden Triangle as you might know

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I got to keep the left to smoke,too fall to the right might dash to the rocks. 我必须让自己降落在烟雾弹的左边 太右边的话就会撞上岩石 It's very very tiny thing.Lake surfaces' feature is grand,and so hard to judge in the pack

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I'm Bear Grills. I'm gonna show you what it takes to get out alive to some of the most dangerous places on earth. 我是贝尔格里尔斯 我将向您展示 如何从地球上 最危险的地带 逃出生天 I've got to make it through a week of cha

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How and when the Earth got its crust are questions that divide geologists into two broad camps, 地球如何有了地壳,何时有了地壳,这两个问题把地质学家分成两大阵营, those who think it happened abruptly early in the Eart

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