The team found that parts of the seamount's steep flanks were made of porous volcanic material, leaving them weak and unstable.
研究小组发现,海山陡峭的侧翼局部由多孔的火山物质构成,这正是其脆弱和不稳定的诱因。
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Mr Cohan handles his material deftly, portraying Bear as symptomatic of an industry that had come to believe its own hype and had lost sight of how inherently unstable it really was.