Friday, March 29, 2013

Spotted Lake, British Columbia



Spotted Lake



It looks almost as if you can play Twister spots Lake near Osoyoos, less than a mile from the Washington border. Every summer, the evaporation of the water in the lakes rich in mineral resources, leaving large concentrations of salt, titanium, calcium, sulfate, and other minerals to form a pattern of dots of different shades of green, yellow and brown circles size.

Lake Okanagan Valley of a country is a sacred site and the land it sits on private property owned by the Indian Affairs. You will not really be able to get close to the lake, but you can have a good look at the nearby roads.

The Eye of the Sahara (Richat Structure), Mauritania



The Eye of the Sahara 


This huge depression, the circular shape and stretches 25 miles wide, like a bull's-eye mark in the middle of the desert regions of Mauritania planar features. Can be seen from space, it has been a landmark of the astronauts, because the first task.

The eye is no target practice, the results of foreigners, but the formation of wind erosion at different levels of sediment, quartzite and other rocks at different depths.

Cano Cristales River, Colombia



Cano Cristales River


Folks understand why Cano Cristales inspired five colors, liquid rainbow, even in the world's most beautiful rivers nickname like to central Colombia Serranéa the de la Macarena National Park trip.

It is important to get the time correct: when the water reaches the perfect level (usually between July-December), it becomes a kaleidoscope of pink, green, blue, and yellow as a species of plants called Macarenia clavigera, who lives in River floors need to get the sun to bloom to an explosion of colors.

Moeraki Boulders, New Zealand



Moeraki Boulders


Spherical stones that line the New Zealand Moeraki Beach reached 7 feet in diameter and has been compared to huge, all marble giant dinosaur eggs to half submerged prehistoric turtle, ready to stand up and get rid ofsand at any time.

They actually tuberculosis masses of compacted sediment formation below ground more than 50 million years ago. Surrounded by sand erosion, they seem to rise to the surface, as if pushed up from the earth's center. Stone bowling ball on the beach in Mendocino, California, and elsewhere in the United States, Canada and Russia.

White Desert (Sahara el Beyda), Egypt



White Desert (Sahara el Beyda)


The strange bulbous shape and size of the white rock rose Farafra town about 28 miles north of the western desert, Egypt clusters mushrooms in here, there is a group of half-melted snowman.

Their appearance is due to a number of avant-garde stone sculptor, but because of the wind. When ancient sea that once covered the land dried up, and the rest of the deposition layer began to be broken. The collapse of the relatively soft point, with the passage of time, a powerful sandstorm hard rock to the current form.

Sailing Stones, Racetrack Playa, Death Valley, CA



Sailing Stones, Racetrack Playa, Death Valley




Never been seen "sailing stones" Death Valley Raceway Praia move, but in the long lagged behind their track in the dusty ground, marking the their Travel evidence is visible.

Scientists do not know exactly how rocks weighing hundreds of pounds, make their way across a dry lake bed. The common argument is that when wet or icy, rocky along the flat beach by strong winds push. They leave, they may have their starting point for traveling to 700 feet deep grooves.

Travertine Pools at Pamukkale, Turkey



Travertine Pools at Pamukkale


People come here for thousands of years to take a bath to seek well-known effect of treatment. To the pool the water flowing from 17 underground Springs calcium carbonate to form a soft deposits when it hits the surface with a very high concentration.

These sticky white precipitate hardening over time until spring like a fountain, chalk, or represented poetry translation Pamukkale, "cotton castle" visual distance of over 10 miles away.