This moraine gives us easy access to the tree line.

沿着冰碛走 我们会很容易到达森林线。

And we'll get onto this moraine and try and find somewhere to make camp before it gets dark.

我们要爬上这块冰碛 在天黑之前 找地方搭上帐篷。

The first rains fell on raw, crumbling moraines and rocks without a plant.

第一场雨落在没有植物的原始、摇摇欲坠的冰碛和岩石上。

And where two glaciers join, their lateral moraines merge to form a medial moraine.

在两条冰川汇合处，它们的外侧 冰碛合并形成内侧冰碛。

The meaning of this correspondence between moraines and shadows was afterward made plain.

冰碛和影子之间这种对应关系的意义后来变得很清楚了。

The soil is mostly decomposed and disintegrated moraine material.

土壤主要是分解和分解的冰碛物质。

All the forests of the Sierra are growing upon moraines, but moraines vanish like the glaciers that make them.

山脉的所有森林都长在冰碛上，但冰碛像形成它们的冰川一样消失了。

So also, most of the birds trace the moraines to some extent, because the forests are growing on them.

同样，大多数鸟类都会在某种程度上追踪冰碛， 因为森林正在其上生长。

The cedar of Lebanon, said Sir Joseph Hooker, occurs upon one of the moraines of an ancient glacier.

约瑟夫·胡克爵士说， 黎巴嫩的雪松生长在古老冰川的一处冰碛上。

Rugged spurs, and moraines, and huge, projecting buttresses began to shut me in.

崎岖的山脊、冰碛和巨大的、突出的扶壁开始把我关在里面。

Only upon the head waters of the Carson have I found this species established on good moraine soil.

只有在卡森河的源头水域， 我才发现这个物种建立在良好的冰碛土壤上。

It appears, therefore, that the Sierra forests indicate the extent and positions of ancient moraines as well as they do belts of climate.

因此，Sierra 森林似乎表明了古冰碛的范围和位置，同时也表明了气候带。

On the upper portion of the basin broad moraine beds have been deposited and on these fine, thrifty forests are growing.

在盆地的上部沉积了广阔的冰碛床，在这些优良、节俭的森林中生长着。

All the forests of the Sierra are growing upon moraines.

山脉的所有森林都生长在冰碛上。

But the bulk of the moraine is composed of porphyritic granite derived from Feldspar and Cathedral Valleys.

但大部分冰碛是由长石谷和大教堂谷中的斑状花岗岩组成的。

But moraines vanish like the glaciers that make them.

但是冰碛像形成它们的冰川一样消失了。

The Cedars of Lebanon, says Hooker, are growing upon one of the moraines of an ancient glacier.

胡克说，黎巴嫩雪松生长在古老冰川的一处冰碛上。

Small lakes abound in all sorts of situations, —on ridges, along mountain sides, and in piles of moraine boulders, most of them mere pools.

小湖在各种情况下比比皆是，在山脊上，在山腰上，在冰碛巨石堆中，其中大多数只是水池。

The recesses among the peaks look like quarries, so raw and fresh are the moraine chips and boulders that strew the ground in Nature's glacial workshops.

山峰之间的凹陷看起来像采石场，在大自然的冰川车间中散布在地面上的冰碛碎片和巨石是如此原始和新鲜。

And these again, reacting on the clouds, eroded immense cavernous spaces in their gray depths and swept forward the resulting detritus in ragged trains like the moraines of glaciers.

这些又一次对云层产生反应，侵蚀了灰色深处的巨大洞穴空间，并将由此产生的碎屑像冰川的冰碛一样，以参差不齐的方式向前冲去。