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Pink Terraces

Parts of the Pink Terraces under layers of silt on the lake bed of Lake Rotomahana.

Rights: Photo acknowledgement: Dr. Dan Fornari, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, courtesy of GNS Science.

Published: 25 March 2011Size: 21.24 KB

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