Artists and architects are constantly trying to create something amazing, but truly amaze the natural anomalies of our planet. And in this case, the issue is not so much in beauty, as in the physical possibility of the existence of such a natural phenomenon.
Of course, the number of natural anomalies is not limited to this list, our planet is capable of giving us even more surprises.
10 facts about natural anomalies
- Strange waterfall . Everyone from school remembers that the water freezes at zero, but the waterfall in the Chinese province of Shengx apparently does not know anything about it. Scientists can not explain his strange behavior differently. In winter, when the frost reaches 30 degrees, a powerful stream of water and does not think to change the state to solid, but at the height of summer, for some reason, it begins to become covered with ice crust.
- The driest place on the planet . Have you thought about Atakama or Sahara? And here you have not guessed, this is the title of the dry valleys of Antarctica. According to scientists, the rains here have not been around 2 million years, and the snow instantly evaporates due to constant winds blowing at speeds up to 320 km / h.
- What is Antarctica like? Scientists for a long time thought and decided that its outline almost exactly repeats the contours of the Arctic Ocean. Explained this natural anomaly meteorite, which fell on our planet and literally squeezed Antarctica to the other side. The idea seems unconvincing, but many scientists agree with it.
- The valley of the falling birds . This is probably the most creepy fact about the natural anomalies of 10. Just imagine birds, hundreds falling from the sky! This happens regularly in August in the mountains of the Indian state of Assam. Birds during the fall look like dead and do not attempt to escape when they are picked up.
- Dead lake . It is located in Kazakhstan and does not exceed 60 by 100 meters. Even in extreme heat, the water here never disappears, remaining incredibly cold. The lake is absolutely unsuitable for life, there are not only no seaweed, it can not even be investigated, since divers with a full balloon of air begin to choke after 3 minutes of stay in the water.
- Survive in the stone . Frozen in the thickness of amber insects saw everything, but to assume the presence of a living organism could not anyone before Raul Kano. He found in a piece of amber spores, which got there about 25 million years ago. I can not believe that these microorganisms are still alive after all these years.
- Drrossolidides . Literally this word means "droplets of water", and this unusual kind of natural anomalies on the coast of the island of Crete is observed. In the middle of summer before dawn, droplets of fog are formed in the air, unfolding a picture of a huge battle at the castle of Franca-Castello. Observers hear the sound of guns and the cries of wounded people. It's amazing that the large-scale battle between the Turks and the Greeks really happened here about a century and a half ago.
- Australian mystery . Vulemi - this amazing pine, whose age is estimated in millions of years, scientists even call the figure of 150 million. The very fact of the existence of this prehistoric plant for a long time was the state secret of Australia.
- The thunderhead . The sight of lightning leaves no one indifferent, scares someone, and someone fascinates. One glade near the town of Korosten, which in Zhytomyr region also has a special love for this natural phenomenon. Lightning strikes here more often than usual, and sometimes the clearing gives a charge, releasing a ray of light into the sky. It was logical to assume the presence of deposits of ore, but archaeologists have discovered only the ruins of ancient structures from stone blocks.
- A devil's hole . A unique natural formation is located in Nevada (USA), it is a crevice formed on the crust of the earth's crust. At the bottom of this hole is a lake, in which rare species of fish live, and this is at a depth of 120 meters. The real depth of the researchers is yet to be clarified.