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26 Feb 2016, 12:42 am

AuroraBorealisGazer wrote:
I wonder what, specifically causes this coloring in the rock. It looks like some sort of reaction to certain run-offs.
Puente Del Inca, Argentina
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Oooh, rock porn!

Usually, iron minerals cause that kind of discolouration.


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26 Feb 2016, 12:44 am

Okay, I'm getting somewhere:
Information given on LonelyPlanet says the orange color is due to "the sediment deposited by the warm sulfuric waters."



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26 Feb 2016, 12:45 am

Raleigh wrote:
Oooh, rock porn!

Usually, iron minerals cause that kind of discolouration.


:P I love me some rock porn.



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26 Feb 2016, 12:46 am

AuroraBorealisGazer wrote:
Okay, I'm getting somewhere:
Information given on LonelyPlanet says the orange color is due to "the sediment deposited by the warm sulfuric waters."


That makes sense.


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26 Feb 2016, 12:48 am

Sulphuric waters?
Sounds pleasant.

From my rock photo collection.
Iron mineral weathering.

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26 Feb 2016, 12:48 am

AuroraBorealisGazer wrote:
Okay, I'm getting somewhere:
Information given on LonelyPlanet says the orange color is due to "the sediment deposited by the warm sulfuric waters."

I'm asexual, and yet, that sounds very sexual to me-- must be the indoctrination from modern advertising exerting it's control over my mind.



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26 Feb 2016, 12:51 am

Aristophanes wrote:
AuroraBorealisGazer wrote:
Okay, I'm getting somewhere:
Information given on LonelyPlanet says the orange color is due to "the sediment deposited by the warm sulfuric waters."

I'm asexual, and yet, that sounds very sexual to me-- must be the indoctrination from modern advertising exerting it's control over my mind.

yeh, lots of us here have somewhat frustrated sediments Image



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26 Feb 2016, 12:52 am

Mount Kaputar.
Columnar jointing (organ piping)

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26 Feb 2016, 12:53 am

^ I had a tangle with a tree snake while I was there :lol:


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26 Feb 2016, 12:56 am

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^ I had a tangle with a tree snake while I was there :lol:

nice snakee :) that organ piping looks musical to the eyes :dj:



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26 Feb 2016, 12:57 am

^ Isn't it beautiful?


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26 Feb 2016, 12:57 am

My stiff upper lip has been replaced by a hanky. I'm kind of glad my mum doesn't want to see me right now. If she can't accept me as I am now, she doesn't deserve my presence.


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26 Feb 2016, 12:58 am

I can imagine its beauty up close and personal :o are you a mountain climber by chance?