article_snippet: Known as Blood Falls, the dramatic colour comes from the two million-year-old iron-heavy brine trapped under the ice.
article_snippet: Known as Blood Falls, the dramatic colour comes from the two million-year-old iron-heavy seawater trapped under the ice .
article_snippet: Jill Mikucki, an assistant professor of microbiology at the University of Tennessee explained that Blood Falls' deep red hue is caused by the discharge of iron-rich, brine liquid.
article_snippet: Blood Falls' deep red hue is caused by the discharge of iron-rich, brine liquid chemistry is changed by bacteria, which transforms sulphur and iron compounds in order to survive.
article_snippet: Blood Falls' deep red hue is caused by the discharge of iron-rich, brine liquid.
article_snippet: When the liquid oxidises at the surface, When the liquid oxidises at the surface creates a blood-red colour.
article_snippet: 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 .
highlights_snippet: Blood Falls is an outflow of an iron oxide-tainted saltwater in Antarctica .
  