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Blood Falls – Antarctica

Blood Falls is actually the outflow of an iron oxide-tainted plume of saltwater. This water flows from the tongue of Taylor Glacier on the ice-covered surface of West Lake Bonney McMurdo Dry Valleys which is situated in Victoria Land, East Antarctica.

The water flowing is Hyper-saline and Iron-rich which emerges from small fissures of the ice cascades. The source of the saltwater is a sub-glacial pool of a size that is unknown overlaid by about 400 meters (1,300 ft) of ice several kilometers from its tiny outlet at Blood Falls.

Blood Falls – Antarctica

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