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Article #7976Red stuff in bay
From: Paul Burnett
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1993 09:17
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1993 09:17
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TO: grad@clovis.felton.ca.us
MT>The red stuff is not actually in the bay. It is in salt
>evaporation ponds used by the Leslie Salt Co. The red color
>come from massive concentrations of planktonic organsisms
>known as dinoflagellates. The conditions in the ponds are
>perfect for their reproduction.
They come in different colors. At the Environmental Center, they tell
that one can tell the salt concentration in the different ponds by the
color of the critters who have populated it at that particular salinity.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10df74,fd7bb930aff447e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10df74,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-02-07 01:17:00 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcomsv!pcs!paul.burnett From: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett) Newsgroups: ca.environment Subject: Red stuff in bay Message-ID: <140.31.uupcb@pcs.sj.ca.us> Date: 7 Feb 93 09:17:00 GMT Distribution: world Organization: PCS-BBS - San Jose, CA - 408-270-4085 Reply-To: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett) Lines: 14