Buttes

Whittled by a half million years of wind and rain, the haunting claystone hills and buttes of Badlands National Park rise above the surrounding sea of grasslands.

历经了50万年的风吹雨打后，恶地国家公园的黏土岩丘陵与孤山矗立在一片草原之海中。

Current plant practice at Twin Buttes: Oxide Copper and By--product Uranium

美国特温·比尤特矿山最近回收氧化铜矿和副产铀的工厂实践

buttes are composed of hard volcanic rock left behind after water eroded away the surrounding soft rock.

这些孤山是坚硬的火山岩在流水侵蚀走周围松软的岩石后形成。

the house has a view of distant buttes .

从这所房子里能看到远处的孤峰。

water may also pool at the bottom of inactive pits, such as in the twin buttes mine at image upper right (black areas).

而废弃的矿坑底部会积水，如同图中右上部的双峰矿（TwinButtesMine）一样（黑色区域）。

Rock and cobbles eroded down from the Bighorn Maintains and filled up the basin to at least a thousand feet, the height of the Pumpkin Buttes.

【参考译文】从大角山侵蚀下来的岩石和卵石填补了低洼的盆地至少一千英尺，也就是今天南瓜巴茨山们的高度。

On a cliff, 9000 feet high, he finds granitic cobbles that are strikingly similar to the ones on the Pumpkin Buttes.

在悬崖上，9000英尺高的地，他发现这里的花岗岩石与南瓜巴茨山上的鹅卵花岗岩石是惊人地相似。

pelicans fly to mullet island, one of the four salton buttes, small volcanoes on the southern san andreas fault, after sunset in california.

在加利福尼亚州日落之后，一群鹈鹕飞往鲻鱼岛，它是沙顿四孤峰中的一个，是圣安德烈亚斯断层南部的一个小火山群。

its uninviting surface is marked by mesas and buttes, and barren stretches of parched desert hardpan.

不起眼的表面有著台地与小尖山以及贫脊乾燥的沙质地基。

tortured ice the permanent cap at mars south pole has been eroded by the wind into a tortured complex of pits, buttes and mesas.

被挤压的冰层永久性覆盖在火星南极的冰帽被风侵蚀成了深坑，平面或孤丘。