Salt Turns Lake Red

Fri Aug 10, 2012 4:54 pm » by **One-23**

No Animals where harmed in the making of this :mrgreen:

The blood red lake beauty spot which is startling tourists in southern France

It might look like a scene from a horror film but this is the breathtaking natural phenomenon which has met tourists at a popular French beauty spot.

The stunning scenes in Camargue, southern France, may look very dramatic but are actually thought to be caused by the high levels of salt within the water.

The bizarre sight was captured by photographer, Sam Dobson, from Moscow in Russia.

Source http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... d-RED.html

Fri Aug 10, 2012 8:25 pm » by **SUKHOV**

That's some radical stuff Cagey. I remember when I worked at a chemical plant (Trona, CA) we had a salt bed, and the water was super blood red! It was pretty freaky driving on top of the sheets of sediment, because only a few feet thick and then BAM, water. They extracted salt, borax, pyrex, all kinds of stuff from there. Supposedly from what they told me you could find over 85% of the periodic table of elements in that Lake. Crazy.

Fri Aug 10, 2012 8:58 pm » by **Seahawk**

I would imagine a lot of iron ore, as well?