Average Ground Water Temperature in the Contiguous U.S.

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Those are some interesting gradients!

Also I can't unseen that smile in the west now...
- Lakes Tahoe and Great Salt trying to brighten our days.
  
  It’s an axolotl!
  
  I don't think that's lake Tahoe, that's that one uninhabited region of NV. Tahoe much further south and west.
What is this color scheme from a red heavy color to blue to red heavy again. Why even bother with gradient at that point, just go all PowerPoint and use random colors
- Some deviation of the rainbow color map, I guess. Like the jet color map, it is not really useful.
- booo this man
Me when I see a neat map
source: https://www.powerequipmentdirect.com/manuals/8aac12f937dcfe115b55b6e2cc1fd03d.pdf
- Damn, never knew the whole US was a geothermal hotspot.
  
  The comment you're replying to has the PDF with °F
How is 77 degree groundwater not full of bacterial growth?
- Well there's those brain eating amebas
- Lack of nutrients, probably. Life needs useful energy, and the kind of life that you or me would find offensive needs a whole bunch. Therefor, by the second law of thermodynamics a closed system eventually becomes lifeless.

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