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Eternal Flame Falls...

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The  Eternal Flame Falls  is a small  waterfall  located in the Shale Creek Preserve, a section of  Chestnut Ridge Park  in  Western New York . A small  grotto  at the waterfall's base emits  natural gas , which can be lit to produce a small flame. This flame is visible nearly year round, although it can be extinguished and must occasionally be re-lit. Geologists from  Indiana University   Bloomington  and Italy's  National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology  studied Eternal Flame Falls in 2013 in an effort to better understand how natural gas emitted from naturally occurring  hydrocarbon seeps  contribute to  greenhouse gases  in the atmosphere. They found that the 'macro seep' at Eternal Flame Falls had higher concentrations of  ethane  and  propane  (about 35%) than other known natural gas seeps, which typically contain a greater proportion of  methan...
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Blood Falls!!

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Blood Falls is an outflow of an iron oxide-tainted plume of saltwater, flowing from the tongue of Taylor Glacier onto the ice-covered surface of West Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land, East Antarctica. The salt content of the subglacial lake under Blood Falls is three times saltier than seawater and too salty to freeze. The reddish deposit was found in 1911 by the Australian geologist  Griffith Taylor , who first explored the valley that bears his name. The Antarctica pioneers first attributed the red color to  red algae , but later it was proven to be due to iron oxides. Chemical and microbial analyses both indicate that a rare subglacial  ecosystem  of  autotrophic   bacteria  developed that metabolizes  sulfate  and  ferric  ions. According to  geomicrobiologist   Jill Mikucki  at the  University of Tennessee , water samples from Blood Falls contained...
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