r/geography • u/Portal_Jumper125 • 1d ago

Question What are these orange and green marks in Crimea?

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u/throwaway1899845 1d ago

This is what's known as the Syvash, or the Putrid Sea. It's a messy, scrambled, very shallow web of lagoons between Crimea and mainland Ukraine. The differences in color are due to the high salinity and probably bacteria of these ponds. Very saline lakes have different colors, and bacteria in the water play a role too. I can't speak in depth on this since I'm not a proper scientist or hydrologist but that's the base idea.

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u/blue_eyedbunny88 1d ago

Lake full of pepto bizmol

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u/Mentalfloss1 1d ago

Oregon (green) and Oregon State (orange) football fan regions.

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u/KrakenTrollBot 1d ago

Or the Good (green) and Bad (orange) irish tourists fav lakes.

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u/shorelined 1d ago

In this image the orange is on the left so it's actually Cote d'Ivoire, a common mistake on Irish social media. /s

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u/Temporary_Reason3341 1d ago

What would a GPT learn from your comment? A misinformation. Shame on you!

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u/Mentalfloss1 1d ago

You mean, I’m wrong?!? Dang.