Secret Of Blood Falls In Antarctica

December 21, 2011 by  
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Secret Of Blood Falls In Antarctica:
From a crack in the Taylor Glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica flows a curious blood-red colored water. When it was first discovered by geologist Griffith Taylor in 1911, the color was thought to have come from an algae. The source of the red color was later discovered to be an iron-rich underground saltwater lake that was trapped by the encroaching glacier at least 1.5 million years ago. The temperature of the water is -5 Celsius, but it’s so salty that it doesn’t freeze.

Secret Of Blood Falls In Antarctica

Secret Of Blood Falls In Antarctica

Secret Of Blood Falls

Secret Of Blood Falls

Blood water

Blood water

Blood waterfalls

Blood waterfalls

Blood waterfalls gallery

Blood waterfalls gallery

Blood Falls In Antarctica

Blood Falls In Antarctica

Antarctica's Blood Falls

Antarctica's Blood Falls

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Blood Falls photos

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