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Thursday, 7th April 2005 by
More weird patterns and colours here with some pollution controlling algae salt ponds in the San Francisco Bay and some salt pools potash mine run-off pools in the Utah mountains. (Via)
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I believe the San Francisco Bay photo shows the Cargill salt solar evaporation ponds (with algae growing in them): http://www.cargillsalt.com/sfbay/T_solar_intake.html
Those aren’t salt pools in the Utah shot. They’re tailings from a potash mine near Moab – the mine and mill can be seen nearby.
Here’s some ground-level photos (the last three pics in the second row):
http://photos.3scape.net/dir/37/110
hehe, that was my search I posted last night – how did it end up here? fipi lele only knows.
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I second the post by Salty. Those are salt ponds, not pollution control ponds, in the San Francisco Bay.
As the water evaporates and the salinity increases, the algae change color from green to pink. Flamingos eat these algae and turn pink themselves. No, really!