Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
Trending News
Why does the water of high mountain lakes vary in color from lake to lake?
For example, look in Google maps or yahoo maps at the Uinta Mountains in Utah and you will notice that many of the lakes exhibit bright colors (turquoise, aqua-marine, light blue, even some bright browns). As far as I know, there are not any glaciers in these mountains, to create "glacial flour" like in many of the lakes in Glacier National Park, or the Wind River range. For an example, zoom in closer on these lakes to see the different colors - http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Utah&ll=...
3 Answers
- GlennLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
It would mostly depend on depth, mineral content, algae content, oxygen content, and density of particulates in the water.
- AndrewGLv 71 decade ago
All the factors mentioned by Glen are involved; but one of the main reasons why lakes on google earth vary so much is the angle between the sunlight reflecting off the water surface and imaging device (aerial photo or satellite imaging). Also, the way satellite imaging works is different from aerial photography, because satellite imaging uses multi-wavelength image processing.
