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Eye Candy: New Zealand's champagne pool
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Cheryl Santa Maria
Digital Reporter
Digital Reporter
Thursday, September 25, 2014, 7:15 PM -
The name of this hot spring was derived from a high concentration of carbon dioxide that create bubbles similar to what you'd see in a glass of bubbly.
Scientists believe it was formed about 900 years ago following an eruption in the North Island of New Zealand, leaving behind a crater about 65 metres in diametre.
The orange ring around the hot spring comes from arsenic and antimony sulphide deposits.
"ChampagnePool-Wai-O-Tapu rotated MC" by Christian Mehlführer, User:Chmehl - Own work. Licensed under CC BY 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons.