Over millions of years, groundwater left deposits of a mineral called calcite, on the rock within Devil's Hole.
在数百万年的时间里,地下水在魔鬼洞内的岩石上留下了一种叫做方解石的矿物质沉积物。
The ratio of oxygen-16 to oxygen-18 found in the calcite of a foraminifer's shell depends on the temperature of the water in which the organism lived.
在有孔虫壳的方解石中发现的氧-16和氧-18的比例取决于该生物生存处的水温。
The fossils buried in Pleistocene and earlier ocean sediments were of foraminifera—small, single-celled marine organisms that secrete shells of calcium carbonate, or calcite.