These tree stumps indicate that this beach was somewhat above sea level when the trees grew , but dropped to below sea level as the result of an earthquake .
这些树桩说明此处海滨在树生长时期曾经位于海面以上,但是由于地震的原因沉降到了海面之下。
Logging on a large scale had just begun , and the stumps of cut trees were visible everywhere , like stubble on a dry , cracking face .
大规模伐木刚刚开始,砍伐后的树桩随处可见,像一张干裂脸上的胡子茬。
For this project , mr. taylor has been looking both high and low , collecting basal sprouts from the stumps of old redwoods , which were heavily logged in the 20th century .
为了开展这个项目,泰勒先生遍寻大小红杉,从古树树桩上采集树芽,红杉在20世纪遭到了严重的砍伐。
Mr. milarch pays him for each of the stumps he finds , including the one at fort dick , a town near the oregon border just north of crescent city , calif.
Material such as wood chip pellets will be imported from north america and africa , while uk-sourced biomass like tree stumps and corn stubble will also be used .
能源材料,例如木片,会从北美和非洲进口;本土的生物质能,如树桩和玉米茎杆也会被使用。
Some have been cut to a litter of tree stumps and scrub ; on others , charcoal-makers have moved in to reduce the rootballs to fuel ; next , other fields have been levelled and prepared with lime and fertiliser ; and some have already been turned into white oceans of cotton .
William ruddiman , the paper 's lead author and emeritus professor of environmental sciences at the university of virginia , said the early farmers were likely to have cleared land by burning forests , planted crop seeds among the dead stumps and moved on to a new area once the yields declined .
And I have a wooden comb with a decoration of woven wool made and sold by a tanzanian man who lost his fingers to leprosy but still found a way to make a living-weaving colored yarn with his stumps and his teeth .