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Earth-Like Planet It's Hard To Believe These Places Exist On Our Own Planet
Here Are Unbelievable Places That Actually Exist
On The Northwest Coast Of Africa About 18
Miles Northeast Of The Senegalese Capital Dakar Is A Lake Like Anything You'll
Find Elsewhere In The World Called Lake Retba It Has An Extremely High Salt
Content And This Provides Ideal Conditions For Doudna Hi Ella Celina L Gate To
Thrive Which Are Bright Red Colored And Make The Water Appear To Be Pink This
Unusual Hue Is Far More Prominent During The Region's Dry Season Between November
And June And The Effect Is Accentuated By The Magenta Bushes That Grow Around
Its Shores The Lake Is An Important Economic Center Too With Thousands Of
People Who Rely On Retrieving And Selling The Salt Deposits As Well As Fishing
The Waters Catches Here Don't Quite Match Up To What's Possible In Other Lakes However
Because To Survive In Such Salty Water The Fish Only Grow To Around One Quarter
The Size They Would Do Elsewhere
Red Beach Pungent China
China
Is A Country That's Full Of Incredible Geographic Sights But There's Perhaps
None As Surprising As The Red Beach In Paju It's Around The Mouth Of The Penjing
Xiangcheng Seat River With Soil Is So Alkaline That Very Few Species Of Plant
Can Grow One That Does Particularly Well Is The Sway The Salsa Which Has A Deep
Red Color And Is Why The Region Looks So Remarkable Who Was Once Thought That Mars
Was Red Because It Was Covered In Crimson Plants And If That Were True The
Beach At Punch In Is Surely How It Would Have Appeared With So Many Plants
Growing On The Shores The Red Beach Is The Largest Wetland Area In The World
And Together With The Largest Reed Marsh In Asia Which Is Also There The Whole
Region Is A Protected Area Of Natural Interest It's Home To More Than 260
Different Species Of Birds And More Than 400 Species Of Other Types Of Animals
Including The Rare Red-Crowned Crane And Black Mouth Gulls
the Crooked Forest Poland
Deep
Within A Forest Near The Town Of Graphene Oh And Poland Is A Phenomenon That
Has Confused Researchers And Visitors Alike Ever Since It Was First Discovered
Called The Crooked Forest There Are An Estimated 400 Pine Trees That Have For
Some Reason Grown Very Differently To Normal It's Thought That They Were
Planted During The 1930s When The Region Was A Part Of Germany And After Emerging From The Ground
Like Usual They Bent Towards The North For Several Feet Before Growing Upwards
Again It's Not Known Why This Has Happened And Why It's Something That Only
These 400 Trees Have Done There's A Couple Of Theories The First Is That It's
The Result Of Human Design Perhaps Because Of A Tool That Was Used When They
Were First Planted Or The Alternative Suggestion Is That They Were All Subject
To A Freak Weather Event Such As A Snowstorm While They Were Young In Their
Development No Records Exist To Support Either Theory However So It's Quite
Possible We'll Never Know For Certain
Stone Forest Madagascar
Madagascar Is Usually Thought Of As A Place
With An Unparalleled Amount Of Biodiversity But Its Geographical Features Are
Equally Impressive The Stone Forest Which Is Within The Singing Daiba Maha
National Park Began Life Hundreds Of Millions Of Years Ago As A Lagoon
Limestone Deposits Formed On The Bed And Due To Tectonic Activity Were Lifted
Above The Water Surface As Lagoon Receded More Limestone Was Revealed And Was
Worn Away By The Monsoon Rains Over The Following Millennia This Combined With
Groundwater Erosion That Formed Caves That Subsequently Collapsed Has Left A
Series Of Towers With Canyons Between Them Which Has Resulted In The Largest
Such Formation In The World It's Name Means Where One Cannot Walk Barefoot And
That's An Apt Warning These Pillars Some Of Which Are Up To 2600 Feet High Are
Sharp Enough To Easily Cut Through Flesh Or Equipment So Have To Be Traversed
With The Utmost Of Care
Lake Baikal Russia
Lake Baikal
Which Is In Southern Siberia Is The Largest Known Freshwater Lake In The World
Which Contains Almost A Quarter Of Our Planet's Non Saline Surface Water At
Five Thousand Three Hundred Eighty Seven Feet Deep It's The World's Deepest
Lake And Is Also Thought To Be The Oldest After Forming Around 25 Million Years
Ago As You'd Expect There's A Wealth Of Plant And Animal Life In The Region And
It Supports Countless Villages And Tribes But The Thing That's Particularly
Amazing About This Place Is What Happens When It Freezes Over Because It's
Formed In A Valley It's Exposed To Freezing Winds That Blow Across Its Surface
And This Leads To The Creation Of Unbelievable Eye Structures That Are Hard To
Believe Form Naturally Methane Bubbles Are Often Trapped In The Ice Small
Particles Are Blown Together Frozen Melted And Refrozen To Join Into Unusual
Shapes And Rocks Can Even Be Seen Sitting On Their Own Lacy Pedestals At The
Right Time Of Year This Is One Of The Most Serene And Awe Inspiring Places On
Earth And Well Worth A Visit If You Get The Chance
Richat Structure Mauritania
Also Known As The I Of Africa The Richat Structure
Is A Strange Formation In The Desert Rock Near The Small Town Of Donek In Mauritania
The Inverse Dome Is 25 Miles In Diameter And Has Exposed Various Layers Of Rock
That Appear Like Concentric Rings It's One Of The Easiest Natural Structures To
See From Space But Amazingly It's Very Hard To See From Ground Level And If You
Were There You'd Probably Be Unable To Notice Anything Different About It From
The Surrounding Land Quite How It Was Formed Has Been The Subject Of Scientific
Debate Ever Since It Was First Discovered In The 1930s The First Assumption Was
That It's An Impact Crater From A Meteorite But The Lack Of Evidence Of Any
Superheated Rocks Has Ruled This Out Instead It's Been Formed By Millions Of
Years Of Erosion Of Softer Rock That Was Probably Deposited During A Time When
The Region Was Underwater Quite Why This Happened In Such A Circular Fashion Is
Still Unclear There Are Ridges And Valleys That Follow The Concentric Lines Of
The Richat Structure And Evidence Has Been Found That Humans Have Lived Here
For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Years Ancient Artifacts Have Been Unearthed That
Date Back To The Stone Age Such As Tools And Spears Strangely However None Have
Been Found At The Center Of This Depression Which Also Discounts Any
Possibility That This Was A Prehistoric Mine Of Some Sort With Such Delicate
Rock There Are Calls To Make The Structure A Protected Site To Ensure It Can Be
Studied For Years To Come And Hopefully Reveal Some Of The Secrets As To How
This Strange Place Came To Be
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