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15 Things You Didn't Know About Earth

From lakes that actually explode to a twin planet that crashed into Earth once upon a time, we count 15 facts about the little blue planet we like to call home.

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15 Things You Didn't Know About Earth

From lakes that actually explode to a twin planet that crashed into Earth once upon a time, we count 15 facts about the little blue planet we like to call home.

O número 6 exemplifica bem que o mar é a próxima fronteira. Dali ainda hão-de vir muitas espécies, moléculas novas, minério e minerais.

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5 of the Strangest Places on Earth

The places are among some of the strangest places there are on earth.
Apart from number 2 these strange and mysterious places never really get a lot of attention either...



5. Travertine Pools of Pamukkale, Turkey
The Travertine Pools of Pamukkale are as wonderful to behold as they are ethereal-looking. Over the years, white travertine mineral deposits have built up in this area of hot springs, creating a series of white terraces. Over 2000(!) old, these natural pools are blindingly white and filled with clear blue waters.

4. Mount Roraima, Brazil
Mount Roraima is particularly unusual to look at because, rather than finishing in a peak like most mountains, its top is a large plateau. It’s thought to be among the world’s oldest geological formations, and its plateau was most likely created by winds and rains. The plateau is often cloaked with clouds, which are more often than not near the top of the mountain. It has a particularly large number of endemic species of flora and fauna – species that can can be found nowhere else on Earth. There’s no explanation as to why it has such an unusually large amount.

3. Richat Structure, Mauritania
The Richat Structure, also known as the Eye of the Sahara and Guelb er Richat, is a prominent circular feature in the Sahara desert. This structure is a deeply eroded, slightly elliptical, 25 miles in diameter, dome. Several mysteries still surround the areas, such as why the structure is a near perfect circle and why the rings are equidistant from each other.

2. The Bermuda Triangle, Atlantic Ocean
What would a list of strange places be without a mention of the Bermuda Triangle? For anyone who doesn't know, it’s a triangular area in the Atlantic ocean, between Miami, Bermuda and San Juan. Over the years, the area has captured our imaginations, with reports of seemingly inexplicable disappearances of planes, ships and people. No one can say for sure what happened in these cases, but theories range from sea monsters and alien abduction to simple weather conditions among other things...

1. Fly Geyser, United States
Fly Geyser, located in the Nevada Desert, is a collection of three large, colorful mounds which continually shoot five feet of water straight up into the air. It was accidentally created in 1916, during a routine well-drilling. It worked normally until the 1960's, when heated geothermal water started spurting out through the well. Dissolved minerals began to accumulate and gradually built up into the large, colored mounds we see today. Fly Geyser is among the most secret places on Earth, as it’s located on private property and no tourists or sightseers are allowed in.

5 of the Strangest Places on Earth

4. Mount Roraima, Brazil
Mount Roraima is particularly unusual to look at because, rather than finishing in a peak like most mountains, its top is a large plateau. It’s thought to be among the world’s oldest geological formations, and its plateau was most likely created by winds and rains. The plateau is often cloaked with clouds, which are more often than not near the top of the mountain. It has a particularly large number of endemic species of flora and fauna – species that can can be found nowhere else on Earth. There’s no explanation as to why it has such an unusually large amount.

Para mim não é nada estranho. Existe uma "coisa" chamada TECTÓNICA.

Tenho o prazer de já ter estado nos lugares indicados por 1 e 3

Já estive no 2. e 3. e, não desapareci...

5 of the Strangest Places on Earth

4. Mount Roraima, Brazil
Mount Roraima is particularly unusual to look at because, rather than finishing in a peak like most mountains, its top is a large plateau. It’s thought to be among the world’s oldest geological formations, and its plateau was most likely created by winds and rains. The plateau is often cloaked with clouds, which are more often than not near the top of the mountain. It has a particularly large number of endemic species of flora and fauna – species that can can be found nowhere else on Earth. There’s no explanation as to why it has such an unusually large amount.

Para mim não é nada estranho. Existe uma "coisa" chamada TECTÓNICA.

Geologist's "eyes": http://www.geopt.org/index.php/board/viewtopic.php?p=215502#p215502

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