스펙타클한 초자연의 장면들 Nature's other surreal spectacles include flowering deserts and rainbow trees(VIDEO)
Thought the Amazon's boiling river was bizarre? Nature's other surreal spectacles include flowering deserts and rainbow trees
- Geoscientist Andrés Ruzo found a river in the Amazon that boils victims alive, due to being heated by hot springs
- In Hawaii, there are kaleidoscope-coloured trees with bark that look like works of art created by a talented painter
- From Red Sprites in the sky to methane bubbles under a lake, here are some of earth's more spectacular processes
Earlier this week geoscientist Andrés Ruzo revealed that he'd found a four-mile long river in the Amazon so hot it boils.
But it's far from the only bizarre natural phenomenon Mother Nature has up her sleeve.
Other incredible treasures planet Earth offers include underwater vortexes and an island dominated by 43million crabs.
And in Hawaii, there are kaleidoscope-coloured trees that look like works of art.
The spectacular effect is created when 'rainbow' eucalyptus trees shed their bark revealing green, orange and purple splashes beneath.
Here MailOnline Travel shares some of the most stunning and unusual natural phenomena that occur around the world.
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Red Sprites 우주 섬광
For decades, airline pilots were the only people lucky enough to catch sight of an incredible natural phenomenon known as red sprites. These rare burst of light last for just a few milliseconds and take place more than 50 miles (80 km) above the ground during a thunderstorm
Methane bubbles, Vermillion Lake, Canada 캐나다 버밀리온 호수의 얼어붙은 메탄 가스 기포들
These lakes may look like they are full of bizarre floating sea creatures, but they are actually filled with thousands of frozen bubbles. Snapped across Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, the natural wonders are made of highly flammable gas methane
Angel Hair, New South Wales 뉴사우스웨일즈의 엔젤 헤어
호주 뉴사우스웨일스 주에 위치한 골번(Goulburn) 하늘에서 수백만 마리 거미가
떨어져 거미줄 탓에 '엔젤 헤어(Angel Hair)'라고 부른다.
A resident of the Southern Tablelands in New South Wales took to Facebook to report that millions of baby spiders appeared to be falling onto his property from the sky. The phenomenon, dubbed 'angel hair', sees spiders climb to the top of vegetation and release a streamer of silk that catches on the breeze and carries them into the air. Eerie images of the aftermath show entire paddocks and fields wreathed in a thin blanket of the white silk, or spider rain
Boiling river in Mayantuyacu, Amazon 페루 마양투야쿠의 끓어오르는 강
Deep in the heart of the Amazon there is a legendary four-mile-long river that boils its victims alive. This is due to fault-fed hot springs. When rain falls on the surrounding area, it gathers into the porous sedimentary rock. As it move through the rock, it heats up from the primal heat of the Earth. Eventually, it comes across a large thrust fault, or crack. As water falls behind it, it forces the now heated water to ascend along the fault-line to surface as a hot or warm spring
Lake Natron, Tanzania 탄자니아 나트론 호수
Salt-loving algae gives a red colour to the hyper-saline waters of Lake Natron in the Great Rift Valley on the border between Tanzania and Kenya. The lake has an unusual mineral content that is leached from the surrounding volcanoes
Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland 북부 아일랜드 자이안트 코즈웨이
약 6000 만년 전에 화산활동으로 형성된 것으로 총 8km로 약 40000개의 육각형 기둥이 거대한 지형을 이루고 있다
This area of over 40,000 interlocking basalt columns in Northern Ireland may look like a movie set, but is actually the result of an ancient volcanic eruption
Hole-punch clouds 뚫은 듯한 특이한 홀펀치구름
The heaven's are open: Experts call stunning cloud formations hole-punch clouds or fallstreak holes. They are caused when temperatures are below freezing, but water droplets in the clouds have yet to freeze due to a lack of ice particles. When ice particles form quickly, it causes a domino effect as the water droplets connect with the crystals, which get heavier and then start to fall all of a sudden - leaving a large hole in the cloud
Rainbow eucalyptus, Hawaii 하와이 유칼립투스 - 레인보우
These vibrant pictures from Hawaii looks like a work of art created by a painter with an eye for colour. In fact, it shows the spectacular effect created when 'rainbow' eucalyptus trees shed their bark, revealing bright splashes of green, orange and purple beneath
Flowers in the world's driest desert, Atacama desert, Chile
칠레 아타카마 사막의 세계 최고 건조지역에 핀 꽃들
You may imagine the world's driest desert to be barren and lifeless - but during the rainy season a magical transformation brings the area to life. Every five to seven years the Atacama desert in Chile bursts with colour as the flora creates a stunning pink carpet
Christmas Island crabs 자바섬 남쪽의 환초 '크리스마스 아일랜드'의 게떼들
Christmas Island, Australia, is home to some of the most unique animals on the planet- and arguably the most spectacular crab migrations you can ever see. It is estimated that more than 43 million of the crabs inhabit the tiny island, their presence more obvious during breeding season when they head to the water’s edge to reproduce
Great Blue Hole, Belize 벨리즈의 그레이트 블루홀
A large circular submarine sinkhole simply called the Great Blue Hole exists off the coast of Belize and is a popular scuba diving site. The spectacular hole is over 300m across and 124m deep
Bioluminescence, the Maldives 몰디브섬의 생물 발광 광경
Natural phenomenon: The water gives the impression that it is awash with glowing sparkles in Vaadhoo, one of the Raa Atoll islands in the Maldives. The result of a chemical reaction called bioluminescence, it occurs when a micro-organism in sea water is disturbed by oxygen
Rainbow-coloured river, Colombia 콜롬비아 레인보우 색을 가진 강
The Caño Cristales river in Colombia is regarded by many as the most beautiful in the world. Known as the 'liquid rainbow,' the spectacular waters are turned into a kaleidoscope of colour thanks to freshwater plants known as macarenia clavigera and endemic to the Sierra de la Macarena, a mountain range south of the capital Bogota
Lenticular clouds 렌즈 구름
Suspended in the atmosphere and bewitchingly bizarre, the shapes are fantastical formations of lenticular clouds - or Altocumulus lenticularis. The clouds are caused by high winds and upper level moisture coming over the mountain. They form quite often but are usually masked by other clouds, their name is lenticular because of their lens shape they have
Door to Hell, Turkmenistan 투르크메니스탄의 지옥의 문
Resembling a fiery portal to the Earth's crust, the 'Door to Hell' is a natural gas field that has been burning continuously since it was discovered in 1971. The field is situated near the Derweze village, in the middle of the Karakum Desert
Monarch butterflies migration 모나크 왕나비의 이주
During late summer/autumn the eastern North American population of Monarch butterflies migrates from the USA and Canada to Mexico. No butterfly lives through the whole migration process, with female laying eggs during the journey and their offspring continuing on
Houtouwan, China, a fishing village reclaimed by nature 중국 구기섬 '호우토우 완' 어촌마을
양츠강 초입의 작은 섬에 있는 이 어촌 마을은 온통 겹겹이 덩쿨들에 의해 싸여 있다.
지금은 폐허가 되어 있다.
Greenhouses everywhere: Clothed in vines and leaves, the former fishing village is a sight to behold. The pictures were taken by Shanghai-based amateur photographer Qing Jian
Richat Structure, Mauritania 아프리카 모리타니의 리차트 구조물
직경 50km로 황소의 눈(bull's eye)이라는 애칭으로도 불리는 이 구조물은 워낙 커서 땅에서는 전체 형태를 알 수 없다. 지질학자들은 서로 다른 암반층의 차별침식에 의해 생성된 것으로 추측하고 있다
It looks like beautiful abstract splashes of colour not to dissimilar to work by Van Gogh but this vivid picture is a reality in the Sahara desert. Over time, desert weather has caused the Richat Structure to gradually shed layers, resulting in the structure's remarkable flatness
Lapland landscape 핀란드의 라플란드 설경
This incredible landscape in Lapland may look like something from a Dr Seuss book, but is just heavy snowfall causing the trees to bend into unusual shapes
Flowers in Death Valley 미 캘리포니아 데스밸리 '죽음의 계곡'에 핀 꽃들
A rare super bloom of wildflowers has been known to take place in the winter season in Death Valley National Park, thanks to unusual torrential autumn rainfalls in the area
Nacreous clouds 자개구름
자개구름은 낮은 고도에서는 거의 찾아볼 수 없고 주로 19~32km의 높이에서
만들어지며, 권운이나 렌즈형 고적운처럼 생겼다. 채운(彩雲) 현상으로 인해 빛나는
무지갯빛을 가진 이 구름은 매우 아름다워서 때로는 ‘진주구름’이라고도 불린다.
They may look like an Impressionist masterpiece, but these rare nacreous clouds have been spotted 'painting' skies in a rainbow of colours. Officially known as polar stratospheric clouds, they are typically seen over Norway and other polar regions when the sun is just below the horizon
Crooked trees, Poland 폴란드 크루키드(꼬부라진) 소나무
Mysterious: These crooked pine trees are part of a collection of 400 whose trunks are bent to the north in one forest in north-west Poland
Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park in Gansu Province, China 중국 지질공원의 장가계 풍광
Kaleidoscopic hills: With its rolling hills, rocky peaks and multitude of colours, this terrain is positively other-worldly. However, the spectacular lunar landscape, found at the Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park in Gansu Province, China, is actually the result of red sandstone and mineral deposits being laid down over 24 million years
Snow or frost flowers 아이스 크리스탈 '눈꽃'
Snow or frost flowers are ice crystals commonly found on young sea ice in extremely cold, calm conditions. The thin layers of ice are extruded from long-stemmed plants in autumn or early winter that curl into 'petals'
Spotted Lake, Canada 캐나다의 뱅쿠버 인근의 점박이 호수
This amazing body of water near Vancouver, Canada, doesn't have a problem with algae - it is a wonder of nature that occurs every summer when water evaporates at Lake Liluk, known as the 'Spotted Lake'. The unique collection of minerals in the 38-acre lake get so warm by the time that water has evaporated, they collect into colourful circles
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