What do you think the red stuff in this photo is?
ï Photo blown up in one section
(photo by Lisa of Mount Prospect, IL)
What is this red stuff?
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[i”>Where[/i”> is that? Location may help, though I have no idea right now, so maybe not.
Cranberry bogs?
it was taken on a flight from san jose to seattle. i’m pretty sure it was northern california…
is it swamps where serial killers dump their bodies? it reminds me of the “city of the century” documentary on chicago, where they talk about how the stockyard workers used to dump chunks of animal carcasses in the chicago river – parts they weren’t using, like the entire heads. supposedly the problem got so bad that the river turned red from the blood [and stunk!”>. it was a factor in the cholera epidemic. ah, good times!
good times I’m looking up things like “Northern California argiculture” and “farming in Northern California”.
yeah, that s what i was thinking, it’s blood and milk. they talked about the river contamination on the architectural boat tour, and how they reversed the flow of the river so it wouldn’t contaminate the drinking water….so they sent the contamination to the mississippi river… a little present for them….how nice
I think it’s soil with a lot of iron oxide in it. We use iron oxide in ceramics it’s a red powder and if you get it on any of your clothes, you ain’tgonna get it out. it’s essentially rust. (anytime pure iron is exposed to our air, it changes into that red powdery dust of iron oxide… iron and oxygen) i’ve got a couple “rusted” work shirts from ceramics. and just like Mars. The dirt on mars is red cuz that planet has a TON of iron. Which kinda makes sense that planet so close to us would have lots of iron in it, because on earth, iron is the 4th most abundant element. so flying over that section of land there was a bit like flying over a section of Mars!!! but some search on the internet has found: red soil generally indicates good drainage and good aeration (cuz lots of rain and water moving over the soil leaches out the pH base parts leaving behind the iron which gives it the red color.) http://www.ga.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/soils/red.html
My initial guess was “dirt”, but I didn’t know WHY it would be red, which I would have wanted to supply. I’ve seen purple dirt, blue dirt, green dirt … the link you supply explains why Georgia’s clay is “red”, but I always thought it looked more orange down there.
so am i to presume that we don’t know what this red stuff is? or does someone have a definitive answer? i’m still going with the serial-killer-dumping-ground theory.
Located on the southwestern corner of Clear Lake, the largest natural body of water in California, the Red Hills District features a mixture of deep red volcanic soil http://www.vwm-online.com/Magazine/Archive/2003/Vol29_No5/RedHills.htm The Red Hills District is in Northern California. So maybe this is it!