Saturday, February 16, 2013

Surreal Spectacles


Mother Nature can also be an artist - creating surreal spectacles that are jaw-dropping, mind-blowing, difficult to believe but very very fascinating.  Some are too beautiful for words, others seem to not belong in this world.  But I think there is only one conclusion, there is probably no way for Man to replicate them.  Only Mother Nature can create these spectacular phenomenon.

The Beauty Pool of Yellowstone National Park - The hot spring allows luminous algae and bacteria to flourish creating a vivid array of colors. 
Balls Pyramid  - The worlds tallest sea stack, at 562 metres, in Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, Australia. 
The Champagne Pool - A colorful hot spring in the Waiotapu Geothermal area of New Zealand. The surface temperature of the big spring is 74 degrees celsius and it bubbles are due to uprising carbon dioxide. Minerals contained in the hot water are gold, silver, mercury, sulphur and arsenic.   
The elephant rock formation in Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada - A strange natural sandstone rock formation resembling an elephant.
Tufa pinnacles at Mono Lake in Sierra Nevada - Mono Lake is a closed hydrological basin meaning water flows into it but it doesnt flow out. The only way for water to leave is through evaporation. Four vertical feet of water can evaporate during the course of a year.  
The pink Lake Hiller lake in Western Australia - Scientists have proven the strange pink color is due to the presence of algae which is usually the cause of strange coloration.
The Great Blue Hole in Belize - A large submarine sinkhole which is over 984 feet across and 407 feet deep. The sinkhole was formed during several episodes of quaternary glaciation when sea levels were much lower. 
The Wave in Utah - Carved rock eroded into a wave-like formation made of jurrasic-age Navajo sandstone that is approximately 190 million years old. 
These extraordinary natural phenomena just need to be shared.

Credits To: Yahoo