Mixing zone of an acid mine drainage impacted river
Detailed Description
Acidic waters from Cement Creek are discharged in the circum-neutral Animas River near Keystone, Colorado. Mixing of the waters produces colloidal-size iron and aluminum hydroxide precipitates.
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