2022-02-11 International Day of Women & Girls in Science
【Phases·II (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) There’s a little square in Paris, Waiting until we pass. They sit idly there, They sip the glass.
There’s a cab-horse at the corner, There's rain. The season grieves. It was silver once, And green with leaves.
There’s a parrot in a window, Will see us on parade, Hear the loud drums roll— And serenade. —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— 【《阶段》之二(1914年)】 华莱士·史蒂文斯“异乡人·花环”(1879生—1955卒) 【红霞译】 巴黎有个小广场， 正迎候我们到来。 当地人闲坐不动， 咂摸着喝的东西。
街角有匹驮马， 时逢雨水洗礼；经历季节苍凉。 曾几何银鬃快乐飞扬, 遍地绿叶葱翠。
窗内有只鹦鹉， 终会看到我们游行， 听见鼓声喧动—— 以及小夜曲悠扬。 【注】宾夕法尼亚“山林”州的诺卡米克森“软土之地”悬崖矗立在特拉华“好斗者”河岸，几乎垂直于地面，像一道巨大的石墙，俯瞰着脚下流了亿万年的河水。岩体由棕村岩层的页岩、粉砂岩和砂岩构成，坚硬异常——它们形成于大约2亿5,000万年前的三叠纪，那时非洲板块与北美洲板块正在分离，盘古大陆开始解体，沉积物从古老山脉被搬运至此，层层堆积，在巨压下固结成岩。进入更新世，冰盖从北方推进到这里，反复冻融对岩壁施以雕琢。它就这样在地质运动与冰缘作用的双重打磨下，长成了今天的样子——陡峭、坚硬、壮美。 我站在悬崖脚下，仰头看那几乎垂直的石壁，一层层沉积岩的纹理清晰可辨，像翻开了一本地质史书。每一层都是一个时代，每一条纹都记录着一段气候的呼吸。2亿多年前的河流把泥沙带到这里时，不会知道它们会成为一座悬崖；冰川在岩缝里反复冻融时，也不会知道自己在雕刻一件地质遗产。可它们做了，然后时间来了，把一切变得值得。 我伸手摸了摸岩壁上的纹理，指尖触到极细密的颗粒——那里还藏着2亿年前某个傍晚的风，带着远古河水的温度。它沉过海底，被冰川碾过，看着恐龙走来又消失，见过第一批人类在岸边生火；而此刻，我的手按上去，不过是它漫长生命里一个轻得不能再轻的瞬间。我忽然觉得，自己和那些岩层隔着的不只是时间，还有它守着那本写了2亿多年的书、一言不发的耐心。 1974年，特拉华运河被纳入《国家史迹名录》。
Today in History(历史上的今天): 2022: Erwinna, Equal Crow-Fly to NYC—PHL(宾州欧文纳村) 2022: Ringing Rocks in Upper Black Eddy, PA(宾州上黑埃迪响石场) 2022: Upper Black Eddy, Candy Bend PA(宾州上黑埃迪村·糖果弯) 2018: GreatExpectations─CharacterExpectation(《远大前程》性格塑造) 2015: Argumentative─Homework(议论文─论家庭作业)  Delaware Canal Towpath beneath the Nockamixon Cliffs
(诺卡米克森崖下特拉华运河牵引路)  The nearly vertical Nockamixon cliffs are a spectacular geologic site along the Delaware River. The cliffs are composed of unusually hard shale, siltstone, and sandstone of the Brunswick Formation (Triassic age). As Africa separated from North America about 250 million years ago, streams dumped sediment into a stretched depositional basin during the Triassic Period. Coarse-grained sediments accumulated along the basin edges. Rivers laden with pebbles and sand built alluvial fans. Finer-grained sediments settled in lakes. (诺卡米克森崖·【注解】见上)
A Tower of 300 Ft/91 Meters above the Delaware River in Red Shale, Siltstone & Sandstone (特拉华河之上300英尺/91米高的红色页岩粉砂岩和砂岩悬崖)  Cliffs Formed Eons Ago (悬崖形成于亿万年前)
 250 million years ago, during the Triassic Era, hot, molten diabase was erupted from the earth, and its heat baked the shale and siltstone to an unusual hardness.
(2.5亿年前三叠纪，炽热的辉绿岩从地球中蒸腾，其热量使页岩和粉砂岩变得异常坚硬)  Frozen Landscape @ Nockamixon Cliffs, the Palisades of Delaware River along PA Route 32
(诺卡米克森冰封悬崖·宾州32号公路特拉华河岸软土地悬崖峭壁)  Dead Deer Gully (死鹿沟)
 Since facing north, the cliffs receive little direct sunlight & are a habitat for an arctic-alpine plant rarely found this far south of Maine.
(由于悬崖朝北，几乎没有阳光直射，堪称北极高山植物的栖息地，很少出现在缅因州以南地区)
Molten Magma from the Earth's Crust Transformed Sandstone & Shale into Harder Rock (来自地壳的熔融岩浆将砂岩和页岩转化成更坚硬的岩石)  Upper Black Eddy—Milford Bridge, a Steel Truss Bridge
(上黑埃迪—米尔福德桥·钢桁架桥 02-09-2022)  Ruined EH Werner Power Plant in Holland, NJ
(新泽西“草”州荷兰镇·废弃的维尔纳“保卫战士”发电站)  Ruined Cooling Systems of EH Werner Power Plant
(废弃的维尔纳发电站·冷却系统)  Lynn Island over R.Delaware (特拉华河上林恩“湖泊”岛)
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