CBS News May 1, 2017, 1:53 PM
Scientists solve mystery of Antarctica's Blood Falls
Blood Falls is a famous iron-rich outflow of water that scientists suspected was connected to a water source that may have been trapped under an Antarctic glacier for more than a million years.
Erin Pettit
Scientists have long been puzzled by the origins of the mysterious, blood-red waterfall that streams down Taylor Glacier in Antarctica. First discovered by geoscientist Griffith Taylor in 1911, the source of the Blood Falls' eerie red ooze finally has an explanation, thanks to new research out of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Colorado College.
The falls are fed by a large source of salty water trapped beneath the glacier for possibly more than one million years, the research team explained in a study published in the Journal of Galciology.
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