And he created this physical model in order to demonstrate that you could, in fact, create patterns in rocks, or at least, in this case, in mud, that looked a lot like mountains if you compressed them from the side.
彼がこの物理的モデルを作ったのは 側面から圧力をかけると 岩や この場合で言うと泥に 山にかなり似た模様が作り出せると 実証するのが目的でした