Incredible places: A window onto extraordinary landscapes on Earth

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Earth is home to some genuinely mind-blowing landscapes, from salt-covered deserts to huge, undersea waterfalls. Geological and biological procedures, together with environments and unavoidable wear-and-tear, have actually formed these natural landscapes over the eons into the breathtaking functions we see today. Weekly, we open a window onto an unbelievable location and highlight the wonderful history and science behind it. 19459135 Check out more incredible put on Earth 19659001 15 put on Earth that appear like alien worlds 50 intriguing realities about Earth 19659003 14 of the inmost sinkholes in the world 19659004

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19659008 Entrance to the underworld: The huge permafrost’megaslump’inSiberia that keeps growing By 19459162 Sascha Pare 19659010 released 13 September 24 19659011 The growing formally referred to as the Batagay megaslump, is the biggest megaslump worldwide and exposes permafrost layers that are 650,000 years of ages. 19659012 Arctic 19459156 White Shark Café: The mystical conference area for excellent whites in the middle of the Pacific Ocean 19659015 By Sascha Pare released 6 September 24 19659017 Every winter season and spring , excellent white sharks that generally stay off the coast of California collect in a remote area of ocean the size of Colorado– and researchers are gradually piecing together why. Rivers & Oceans 19459153 19659020 Al Naslaa rock: Saudi Arabia’s enigmatic sandstone block that’s split completely down the middle By 19459162 Sascha Pare 19659022 released 30 August 24 Al Naslaa is a rock development in Saudi Arabia’s northwestern desert including 2 big, in proportion stone obstructs that are separated by a mystical space and rest on little pedestals. Geology 19459153 19659026 Racetrack Playa: The home of Death Valley’s mystical’cruising stones’ 19659027 By Sascha Pare 19659028 released 23 August 24 19659029 In Racetrack Playa, a dry lakebed in Death Valley National Park, meteorological conditions can press rocks weighing as much as 700 pounds along the flat ground. 19659030 Geology 19659031 19459156 Yarlung Tsangpo: The inmost canyon on land conceals a tree taller than the Statue of Liberty. 19659033 By Sascha Pare released 9 August 24 The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon is Earth’s biggest terrestrial canyon, extending 314 miles long and practically 20,000 feet from leading to bottom at its inmost point in the Tibet Autonomous Region. 19659036 Geology 19459153

19459156 19659038 Salar de Uyuni: The world’s biggest salt desert and lithium tank surrounded by volcanoes 19659039 By Sascha Pare 19659040 released 2 August 24 19659041 The Salar de Uyuni desert is popular for its gleaming surface area waters and hexagonal salt crust patterns, however listed below this transcendent landscape lie about 11 million lots of extremely in-demand lithium. 19659042 Geology 19459153

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Lake Kivu: The ticking time bomb that might one day take off and release a huge, lethal gas cloud 19659045 By Sascha Pare 19659046 released 26 July 24 Lake Kivu, among the African Great Lakes, sits along a tectonic plate limit called the East African Rift, which is dotted with warm springs that feed co2 and methane into the water.

Geology 19659049 Last Chance Lake: The uncommon ‘soda lake’with conditions that might have generated life in the world By Sascha Pare released 19 July 24 Researchers think about Last Chance Lake to be an analog for lakes that might have existed on Earth 4 billion years earlier and consisted of the active ingredients for early life on our world.

19659054 Development 19659056 Norway’s Dragon’s Eye: The fantastical’hole’that emerged from ice 16,000 years ago By Sascha Pare 19659058 released 12 July 24 19659059 Norway’s photogenic 19459116 most likely formed around 20,000 years earlier, when all of Scandinavia sat underneath a huge mass of ice called the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet. 19659060 Geology 19459153 19459156 19459122

Shark Bay: Home to Earth’s biggest plant– a never-ceasing, self-cloning seagrass meadow extending 112 miles 19659063 By 19459162 Sascha Pare 19659064 released 5 July 24 19659065 A 77-square-mile seagrass meadow at the bottom of Shark Bay in Western Australia is both Earth’s biggest plant and biggest clone. Plants 19659067 1 2Archives 19659068 Learn more 19459196

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