ACTIVE GALACTIC
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恐竜がいた時代の沿岸に堆積した藻類の死骸が，1億年後の現代，綿花栽培の良い土壌となり，人口比で相当割合の黒人が奴隷としてつれてこられ，赤い南部州に民主党支持の青いバンドを作り出す。かなり遠大な政治物語だ。 twitter.com/RebeccaRHelm/s…
2020-11-04 06:42:04
Rebecca R Helm
@RebeccaRHelm
In the South, there is a political strip of blue in a sea of red, and that strip hints at a 100 million-year-old coast that still shapes our world today... [thread based on the article by @DrCraigMc] #ElectionNatureMarathon 📸 bit.ly/2HWhWeC deepseanews.com/2012/06/how-pr… pic.twitter.com/aLqjqsHIBX
2020-11-04 04:56:26
※元スレッドは以下（翻訳＆要約）
High Seas Science
@RebeccaRHelm
In the South, there is a political strip of blue in a sea of red, and that strip hints at a 100 million-year-old coast that still shapes our world today... [thread based on the article by @DrCraigMc] #ElectionNatureMarathon 📸 bit.ly/2HWhWeC deepseanews.com/2012/06/how-pr… pic.twitter.com/aLqjqsHIBX
2020-11-04 04:56:26
"米南部では、赤い海の中に青い（政治的な）帯が見えるが、この帯は1億年前の海岸線を暗示している。"
High Seas Science
@RebeccaRHelm
That strip of blue was formed at the birth of the Atlantic, a fertile coast a the edge of a continent still ruled by dinosaurs like Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus, and relatives of the velociraptor. At the warm shore of the future southern US... pic.twitter.com/WKXgHZIje5
2020-11-04 04:57:31
"この帯は大西洋の誕生時に形成され、その肥沃な大陸端にはティラノサウルスやトリケラトプスなどの恐竜が闊歩した。"
High Seas Science
@RebeccaRHelm
The waves glistened with algae that grew in the shallow depths, & when these algae died their minuscule remains sank to the seafloor, forming a thick grave of carbonate skeletons, building up over millennia. And when the Atlantic began to retreat, what remained... pic.twitter.com/xScoTj433r
2020-11-04 04:58:32
"この浅い海で育った藻が死ぬと海底に沈み、"その炭酸塩の骨格は何千年も蓄積した。そして大西洋が後退し始めたとき、残ったものは、"
High Seas Science
@RebeccaRHelm
was a porous rich band of black soil, known as the Black Belt. Over 100 million years after those algae basked in that shallow sea, their bodies would give rise to cotton: at times over 4,000 bales a year. And that cotton... pic.twitter.com/XzT3DtARTe
2020-11-04 04:59:03
"「ブラックベルト」として知られる多孔質の黒土地帯だった。1億年前の藻たちは、時には年間4000ベールを超える生産量の綿を生み出した。そしてその綿は、"
High Seas Science
@RebeccaRHelm
Was harvested by enslaved people who were shipped across the now vast Atlantic, carried from Africa to the Americas against their will to pick cotton in that fertile black soil... pic.twitter.com/u1DhCfCzXG
2020-11-04 05:06:24
"今となっては広大な大西洋を渡ってアフリカから連れてこられた奴隷たちによって収穫された。"
High Seas Science
@RebeccaRHelm
And so the Black Belt, originally named for the soil, took on a different meaning... pic.twitter.com/rbFO5BeBxC
2020-11-04 05:06:46
"もとは土の名前であった「ブラックベルト」は、現在では違う意味を持つ。"
High Seas Science
@RebeccaRHelm
And as @DrCraigMc states "The legacy of ancient coastlines, chalk, soil, cotton, and slavery can still be seen today. African Americans make up over 50%, in some cases over 85%, of the population in Black Belt counties..." pic.twitter.com/SBjuU2WRZ4
2020-11-04 05:07:55
"古代の海岸線や奴隷制の遺産は今日でも見られる。ブラックベルトの郡の黒人率は50%を占め、高いところでは85%にもなる。"
High Seas Science
@RebeccaRHelm
And these Black Belt counties consistently vote Democratic in elections, even in the largely conservative South. And that is how an ancient ocean shaped, and still shapes, our history today. [End of Thread] (image = wiki) pic.twitter.com/wctIVqABCN
2020-11-04 05:08:41
"そして、これらのブラックベルト郡は、大部分が保守的な南部でさえ、選挙で一貫して民主党に投票する。古代の海はこのようにして形作られ、そしてそれは現代の我々の歴史を形作っているのだ。"