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با سلام به دوستان در روز ۱۸ شهریور در پست زیر چندتا عکس از آبشار خون قرار داده بودم و از دوستان خواستم اگه اطلاعاتی از این آبشار دارند برام بفرستند. این آدرس پست قبلی
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دوست عزیزم آقای افشین ابراهیمی که ساکن ژاپن می باشد مطلب زیر را برایم ایمیل کرده است . تقدیم حضورتان می گردد . البته متن انگلیسی است اگه در ترجمه آن مشکل داشتید از لینک ترجمه متن به زبان انگلیسی در گوگل که در صفحه اصلی نشاط کوهستان می باشد استفاده کنید . اگه مشکلی بود تو قسمت "نظر بدهید" بهم بگید .

Glacier Bleeds Million-Year-Old Microbe

The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica was seen to be bleeding red water like blood waterfall. Scientist investigating this phenomena discovered this is caused by tiny organisms which have survived for millions of years, living on sulfur and iron compounds.

The microbes descended from marine microorganisms and they stayed alive by generating energy from chemical reactions with sulfur and iron.

Blood Falls: You can only stumble across this one if you’re not looking very closely. Blood Falls is an outflow of subglacial water at the terminus of the Taylor Glacier in the Taylor Valley. The researchers studying this landform believe that a large quantity of iron-rich seawater became trapped in the glacier, part of which is released and oxidized each year. This creates a striking frozen waterfall that looks like the glacier is bleeding.

Blood Falls emerging from the Taylor Glacier. Lake Bonney is in the foreground. The glacier face (not including the brown sediment) is about 50 feet high.