Table of contents:
- 1) Haunted trees
- 2) Blood Falls
- 3) Lake Kaindy in Kazakhstan
- 4) Multi-colored tree trunks
- 5) Dirty thunderstorm, or volcanic lightning
- 6) Cenote Ik-keel
- 7) undulating hills
- 8) Uyuni Salt Flats
- 9) Solar pillars
- 10) shimmering beaches in the Maldives
Video: TOP-10 Unusual natural phenomena
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
Despite the development of science and all modern technologies, it cannot be said that we fully understand the planet on which we live. The earth continues to throw up surprises - some can be explained right away, others will have to think about. When faced with natural phenomena for the first time, one can only marvel.
Blood-colored water, shimmering waves, volcanic lightning - nothing inexplicable, but it looks incredibly impressive. We present ten amazing natural phenomena that you can see with your own eyes if you wish.
1) Haunted trees
A phenomenon from Pakistan, representing trees, as if covered with an otherworldly veil. The explanation for it, however, is no less creepy - in fact, it is a spider web created by millions of spiders fleeing a flood.
2) Blood Falls
A gloomy name given to a stream flowing out of the Taylor Glacier in East Antarctica. The blood-colored water was originally attributed to red algae, but closer examination showed it was oversaturated with iron.
3) Lake Kaindy in Kazakhstan
It was formed in 1911 after a strong earthquake. The avalanche blocked the river, and the valley filled with water, flooding the spruce forest. The tops of the spruce trees still stick out from under the water, some have even preserved some of the branches and needles.
4) Multi-colored tree trunks
These are not the fruits of the labors of artists or vandals. This is a true type of eucalyptus, rainbow eucalyptus, which grows mainly in New Guinea. The bark of a tree changes color with age, and after a dozen years it shines with all the colors of the rainbow.
5) Dirty thunderstorm, or volcanic lightning
This is a phenomenon where electrical discharges are generated in a cloud of volcanic ash. As if the eruption itself is not a terrifying enough sight, a thunderstorm is added to it.
6) Cenote Ik-keel
Located in Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula - a unique underground well formed by the collapse of the vault of a limestone cave. The Maya considered this place sacred, now it is used for tourist purposes.
7) undulating hills
Found in Coyote Butts, Arizona, believed to have formed about 200 million years ago, and are frozen sand dunes.
8) Uyuni Salt Flats
A dried up salt lake in southern Bolivia, the largest salt marsh in the world, containing about 10 billion tons of salt. When the surface of the salt marsh is covered with water, it perfectly reflects the sky and creates the illusion of endless space.
9) Solar pillars
Atmospheric phenomenon, one of the types of halo, which is a strip of light stretching towards the sun. Formed by ice crystals suspended in the air. The phenomenon can be observed in winter even in Moscow.
10) shimmering beaches in the Maldives
The safest way to attract tourists. They arise from the proliferation of bioluminescent algae, a type of phytoplankton that makes seawater glow.
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