Polluted stream (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

Polluted stream

Caption

Leviathan Creek below an abandoned open pit mine, an EPA Superfund site in the Sierra Nevada, where iron oxide deposits coat the stream bottom.

Credit

David Herbst

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