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Aaron Singleton asked:<br />
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>>This may sound like a stupid question: What causes the ocean to turn<br />
yellow<br />
at the beginning of Seven American Nights? The American on board becomes<br />
very offended when Nadan points this out to him. Any help is greatly<br />
appreciated.<<<br />
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Doesn't sound like a stupid question to me.<br />
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I imagine that the yellow colouration is caused by sand and mud carried out<br />
into the ocean by rivers flowing from the American interior. America has<br />
been blasted by war and bombs which have destroyed nearly all the<br />
vegetation. No longer secured by the roots of trees and plants, the top soil<br />
has come loose and blown and washed away. Now the rivers are washing all<br />
this loose topsoil out into the sea, where it discolours the water.<br />
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Nigel<br />
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