[NatureNS] foaming streams

Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 23:59:47 -0500
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On 1/12/2015 8:23 PM, Paul Ruggles wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My latest video shows results from the considerable Christmas rain on
> some forest streams that I visited on Boxing Day.
> I wonder how much of the foam results from pollutants? I think there
> might be some considerable foam derived from natural surfactants? Any
> comments?

* that's not an excpetional amount of foam for a brownwater stream. We 
often get mounds of foam 40-50cm high in our creek below the Oxford 
Mills dam - 
http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.ca/2014/01/winter-breakup-oil-on-canvas-8-x-16-in.html

fred.
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