Alluvial Fan
N 57.14.05 W 111.35.16 Shell Albian Sands, Alberta Canada

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Brightly coloured, seemingly metallic tinted, alluvial fan at the edge of Albian Sands tar pond at sunset. The colouration is caused by an orange sunset reflecting off an oily residue covering a sedimentary fan from a discharge pipe.

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