Champagne Pool
by Sarah Weick, KIT, Germany
This colourful spring is located in Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland, New Zealand. Carbon dioxide causes bubbles in the hot liquid. Minerals in the water as gold, silver, mercury, sulphur, arsenic, thallium and antimony generate the significant colours. For example orange = antimony and green = colloidal sulphur/ ferrous salts.
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- Energy, Resources and the Environment (322)
- Field (2822)
- Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (901)
- Natural Hazards (507)
- Tectonics and Structural Geology (569)
Location
- Oceania (227)
- Australia and New Zealand (214)
- New Zealand (125)
- Exact location (176.3692 E, -38.3584 S)
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4000 × 3000 px;
image/jpeg; 2.3 MB
Camera:
Canon Digital IXUS 200 IS
Taken on 23
August
2013
Submitted on 25 February 2015
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Credit
Sarah Weick (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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