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Puede que esta parte se halle anclada sobre una base de roca y no sea arrastrada mucho trecho.
Could be this piece is hung up on a rock base and won’t get carried along much.”
Sin embargo, puesto que buena parte del terreno seguía allí, superando el arrecife como una capa de cieno que no había sufrido daños por la inundación, existía la posibilidad de levantar la base de roca peninsular, con roca transportada hasta allí desde las Canadian Rockies, para después poner el suelo en su lugar en la parte superior de la plataforma del lecho de roca recién levantado.
However, as most of its soil was still there, topping the reef as a layer of mud that was not particularly damaged by inundation, the opportunity existed to scoop it up, then raise the rock foundation of the peninsula with rock trained down from the Canadian Rockies, and after that put the soil back in place on top of the newly raised bedrock platform.
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