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 天黑之前 找地方搭上帐篷。

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

第一场雨落有植物的原始、摇摇欲坠的冰碛和岩石上。

The soil is mostly decomposed and disintegrated moraine material.

土壤主要是分解和分解的冰碛物质。

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

冰碛和影子之间这种应关系的意义后来变得很清楚了。

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冰碛上，但冰碛像形成它们的冰川一消失了。

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

，大多数鸟类都会某种程度上追踪冰碛， 因为森林正其上生长。

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， 黎巴嫩的雪松生长古老冰川的一处冰碛上。

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

只有卡森河的源头水域， 我才发现这个物种建立良好的冰碛土壤上。

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里面。

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

盆地的上部沉积了广阔的冰碛床，这些优良、节俭的森林中生长着。

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

两条冰川汇合处，它们的外侧 冰碛合并形成内侧冰碛。

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，时也表明了气候带。

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。

All the forests of the Sierra are growing upon moraines.

山脉的所有森林都生长冰碛上。

But moraines vanish like the glaciers that make them.

但是冰碛像形成它们的冰川一消失了。

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

小湖各种情况比比皆是，山脊上，山腰上，冰碛巨石堆中，其中大多数只是水池。

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

胡克说，黎巴嫩雪松生长古老冰川的一处冰碛上。

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，大自然的冰川车间中散布地面上的冰碛碎片和巨石是如此原始和新鲜。

This suggested its glacial origin, for the stream that was carrying it issued from a raw-looking moraine that seemed to be in process of formation.

这暗示了它的冰川起源， 因为携带它的溪流是从一个看起来很原始的似乎正形成的冰碛中流出的。