Spartina alterniflora, known as cordgrass, is a deciduous, perennial flowering plant native to the Atlantic coast and the Gulf Coast of the United States.

互花米草，又称绳草，是一种落叶的多年生开花植物，原产于美国的大西洋沿岸和墨西哥湾沿岸。

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The Semirara coalfields formed from 12-23 million years ago along what was then a coastal plain-similar to the current geologic environment of the southeastern Gulf coast of the United States.

塞米拉拉煤矿形成于一亿两千万至两亿三千万年前，那时的塞米拉拉煤矿是一片沿海平原，就如同现在美国东南部的墨西哥湾的地质环境一样。

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Were they salt domes such as are common along the United States Gulf Coast, and if so, why should there have been so much solid crystalline salt beneath the floor of the Mediterranean?

它们是在美国墨西哥湾沿岸的那种很常见的盐丘吗？如果是的话，为什么地中海海底会有这么多坚硬的结晶盐呢？

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The spill may be occurring along the Gulf coast of the United States, but experts say it is an international problem.

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Environmental groups are right to use the Arkansas spill as a cautionary tale -- as one of many reasons that the Obama administration should reject a proposed pipeline, called the Keystone XL, which would carry this risky type of crude from Canada to the Gulf Coast of the United States for processing.

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