One of the other unique features are the massive boulders that dot its landscape .
另一个独特之处是星罗棋布的大块卵石。
It was a sheer drop of ten or twenty metres , with boulders at the bottom .
这是个十到二十米深的峭壁,底面尽是卵石。
Eventually , they and their progeny will break down the boulders and rocky material , reducing it to consolidated soil more inviting to other types of trees .
Further on were meadows with water buffalo , tranquil pools surrounded by squadrons of ducks , neat irrigation canals and quarries full of curiously shaped grey and orange-brown boulders .
Charles darwin was puzzled by the odd arrangement of boulders on the south american coast .
南美海岸上巨砾的奇怪出现令达尔文困惑不已。
What made the boulders unusual was that , other than these 500 or so big rocks spread out in a long , banana-shaped region , there were no others in the vicinity .
Putting all these clues together , evenson was able to pinpoint the source of the rockfall to one of three locations , the most likely of which was beside a tributary called the parry glacier , 200 kilometres from the boulders present locations .
It was littered with magnificent red and ochre boulders that formed small hills or beautiful natural statues , a cross between deliquescing ice cubes and weirdly eroded blocks from a salvador dali painting .
Metzger and colleagues have used similar measures to model how a rocket plume could scatter dust and boulders in the low-gravity environment of the moon , threatening nearby lunar outposts .