The top of the springs' rocks are covered with green biofilms, which use both sunlight and sulfide—naturally occurring chemicals from the springs—to survive. Exclusively sulfide-eating bacteria coat the bottoms of the rocks in a white biofilm. Bacterial mats or biofilms have never been found in the Dead Sea before. You can see the films of green photosynthetic bacteria on top of a rock and a film of white sulfide-oxidizing bacteria underneath it in the very last scene of the movie.
It used to join the Gulf of California in Mexico and provided a shrinking industry that supported Mexicans and kept them from needing to come to America.
But people in the American South West desert really love their lawns, and growing tropical crops in the Mojave desert, that need extra water, doesn't help either; not to mention, they need clean shiny cars, more than Mexicans need water.
It used to join the Gulf of California in Mexico and provided a *shrimping!!! industry that supported Mexicans and kept them from needing to come to America.
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When you write shrimping: you don't expect it to show up as, Shrinking, every time!
It used to join the Gulf of California in Mexico and provided a shrinking industry that supported Mexicans and kept them from needing to come to America.
But people in the American South West desert really love their lawns, and growing tropical crops in the Mojave desert, that need extra water, doesn't help either; not to mention, they need clean shiny cars, more than Mexicans need water.
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