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[Konstantin]

Vivian, if it's not photoshop, how do trees take water?

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Сообщение от Konstantin

if it's not photoshop

is not photoshop.

[Konstantin]

I have not thought about fresh water.

Beautiful, like flying rocks from the movie "Avatar"

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Сообщение от Konstantin

I did not think about fresh water.

Well, in the salty lake is unlikely that would grow.

Remember the Dead Sea.

[tivat]

Salar de Uyuni (Spanish Salar de Uyuni)

- a dried-up salt lake in the south of the desert plain Altiplano, Bolivia at an altitude of 3,650 m above sea level. It has an area of ​​10 582 km ² and is the largest salt marsh in the world. Situated near the town of Uyuni in the departments of Oruro and Potosi in the south -west. The main minerals - halite and gypsum.
The inner part is covered with a layer of salt thickness of 2.8 m. During the rainy season is covered with a thin layer of saline water and is transformed into the world's largest mirror surface .

[Kaffsky]

Сообщение от Konstantin

where trees take water?

On the housing home in the historical center of Kiev simply grow poplars and maples: >

http://gazeta.ua/ru/post/173944

[tivat]

Сообщение от Kaffsky

The housing home in the historical center of Kiev simply grow poplars and maples: >

http://gazeta.ua/ru/post/173944

Plant life in the city.

1 .- The power of life, 2.
- Center of Paris.
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[Santa]

The Wave (USA, between Arizona and Utah) (Fig. 1)

Wave - the so-called Americans formation of red rocks, looking at you, you believe that it is petrified wave. Of course, it was formed by the development of the geological environment of the region, and the water at anything (well, almost nothing to do, because physical weathering here - the main reason for the formation of such a miracle). This site is protected by state, and to get to here is not so easy - just after an exhausting journey through the mountains weary traveler gets to the desired location.

Antelope Canyon, Arizona, USA (Fig. 2)

Arizona, and new geological wonder: Antelope Canyon. Navajo Indian named this canyon "bighanilini," which means "place where water runs through rocks." Water and wind - are the two main factors that led to the formation of the canyon.

The big, or great, blue hole (Great Blue Hole, Belize)
(Fig. 3)

This place was opened by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the tireless traveler, whom we all know from his films and books. Great Blue Hole is located in the center of Lighthouse Reef, is an atoll that is part of the Belize Barrier Reef. Formation is a sink, almost perfectly round, with a diameter of 305 meters and a depth of 120 meters.

Geologists claim that the Great Blue Hole at first was a system of limestone caves, which formed during the last glacial period. At that time sea level was much lower than now, and after the glaciers began to melt, sea levels rose, and set the cave collapsed.

Crystal Cave of Giants (Mexico) (Fig. 4)

This amazing cave was discovered by miners, who to his surprise found that education on the bottom of the shaft. The cave is full of giant crystals that were formed by nature over millions of years. The cave is formed in the bedrock, and the cave is incredibly ancient. Crystals - translucent, foreground color - white, blue and gold.

[Santa]

Eye of the Sahara (Mauritania) (Fig. 1)

The unique formation, called the eye of the Sahara in the south-eastern point of the great desert. Diameter of the "eye" is thirty miles, so that the whole can be seen only from space. Scientists initially believed that the "eye" is an ancient meteorite crater. Now, most geologists are inclined to believe that, in spite of a circular shape, this place was formed as a result of physical and chemical weathering and erosion. It is true, the circular form of education still makes many scientists at an impasse.

Cave of the blue lake (Brazil) (Fig. 2)

Of course, the picture can not convey even a hundredth part of the beauty of the place, but even the picture is impressive. The incredible beauty of the blue lake cave impresses not only with crystal clear water of the lake, whose water is azure-blue color, but the stalactites and stalagmites, glittering in the spotlight.


road of giants (Ireland) (Fig. 3)

Yes, that's one more surprising is the place that really looks like a paved road. Of course, the Giants have nothing to do with it - all this is education - the result of changes in rocks, products of volcanic eruptions, though of very ancient. Igneous rocks with time stratified, forming a geometrically correct figures for the most part four to five-, six-, seven-and octagonal. The highest are 12 meters in height.

Darvaz. The gates of hell. Turkmenistan (Fig. 4)

This formation - human hands. Over thirty years ago, geologists stopped here for the exploration of the vast natural gas deposits. After the start of drilling revealed that beneath the surface lies a huge cave filled with gas. Drilling triggered the collapse of the "roof" the cave, and the whole camp had failed. The gas caught fire, and now 35 years of fire in this place does not stop. Even suggest scary how much gas is already burned in vain. In general, it looks horrible, and for good reason the place is called "The Gates of Hell."

[Santa]

Bridge-rainbow: a sculpture made of stone

One of the greatest wonders of the world - a great bridge of pink
sandstone, where the action unfolds Indian legends, bent over
rocky plain of southern Utah, like a rainbow turned to stone.
 
Paiute and Navajo Indians, who inhabited the southern part of Utah, legends about the mysterious "rainbow stone"
but the exact location of this
a huge stone arches, repeating the shape and colors of the rainbow
heaven, it was known only to few. Intrigued by the stories of the
This miracle, which is located somewhere near the mountains of the Navajo, three
daredevils in 1909 went through the desert and winding canyons in search of him.
 Having the most formidable of North America,
they saw a huge rainbow arch-.

Opened spectacle aroused awe riders delight.
Arch in exactly the same as a real rainbow, not only in form but also in colors.
Under clear skies generally clear pinkish stone looked like a dark purple, in
light sunset sun streak his veins seemed
reddish-brown.

This sleek, length 94 m of sandstone bridge - the largest and
a perfect natural formation of this type. It connects the slopes
Canyon width 85m. His height - 88 m from the base to the highest
point - a little exceeds the height Ivan the Great Bell Tower
in the Kremlin, the thickness of the stone - 13 m, width - 10 m, sufficient for
accommodate two-lane highway. Unprecedented size and beauty of the "rainbow" led the U.S. President
Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed it the greatest miracle of nature.

Soaring off a cliff, with whom she was once a single entity, a powerful
arch flies over a narrow ribbon of the river Bridge Creek. For thousands of years of water and abrasive sediment undermined and washed
foundation stone blocks, until it shall not remain only this air
Arch. A polished stone sculpture resulting wind.

For the Navajo Bridge Rainbow - a sacred place, and archaeological
findings suggest that once flocked here numerous
Pilgrims. However, the passage of this miracle of light, hidden in a narrow
canyon, so difficult that when the first batch of whites reached
before him, it became clear why the precise location of this
marvelous creations of nature knew only a few of the local Indians.

In 1910, the arch has been declared a national treasure, but access
it was discovered only in 1963 with the construction of the dam Glen Canyon.
Formed as a result of Lake Powell raised the water level in
Colorado River: 20 km instead of the dangerous paths visitors have easy water crossings.

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