20 of the Most Beautiful Natural Phenomena

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Mankind still strives to solve many of the world’s natural phenomenas, even after roughly 6,000 years of civilisation. They come in all forms.They each have their own appeal, they all captivate our imaginations and some could be outright terrifying.

HALOS

Halos are rings of light. It is actually an optical illusion that forms around the moon when moonlight refracts off ice crystals in cirrus clouds.

Brinicles

When salt-rich water leaks out of sea ice, it sinks into the sea. It can occasionally create an eerie finger of ice called a brinicle.

Moonbows

Moonbows are rarer than rainbows. It because a variety of weather and astronomical conditions have to be just right for them to be created.

Shooting Stars

Shooting star is a piece of rock or metal that burns very brightly on entering the Earth’s atmosphere from space. It is seen from Earth as a bright star travelling very fast across the sky.

Sinkholes

Sinkholes is cavity in the ground, especially in a limestone formation. These are caused by water erosion and providing a route for surface water to disappear underground.

Whirlpools

Whirlpools are quickly rotating mass of water in a river or sea into which objects may be drawn. They are typically caused by the meeting of conflicting currents.

Waterspouts

A rotating column of water and spray formed by a whirlwind occurring over the sea or other body of water.

Glowing beaches

The bioluminescent sea will glow when it’s disturbed by a wave breaking or a splash in the water at night. Algae bloom sea sparkle events are caused by calm and warm sea conditions.

Volcanic lightning

Volcanic lightning arises from colliding, fragmenting particles of volcanic ash (and sometimes ice). This generates static electricity within the volcanic plume, leading to the name dirty thunderstorm. 

Light pillars

Light pillars are an optical phenomenon caused when light is refracted by ice crystals. These lights tend to take on the color of the light source.

Frozen lake bubbles 

This phenomenon results when decaying plants on the lake bed release methane gas. This in turn creates bubbles that are trapped within the ice. The lake begins to freeze below the surface in a suspended animation.

Blood Falls

The deep red coloring is due to oxidized iron in brine saltwater. The same process that gives iron a dark red color when it rusts. When the iron bearing saltwater comes into contact with oxygen the iron oxidizes. It then takes on a red coloring, in effect dying the water to a deep red color.

Glowworm caves

The glowworm is unique to New Zealand, making the Waitomo Glowworm Caves an absolute must-do. See thousands of these tiny creatures as they radiate their unmistakable luminescent light in a subterranean world.

Salt flats

Natural salt pans or salt flats are flat expanses of ground covered with salt and other minerals. They are usually shining white under the sun. 

Rainbow eucalyptus trees

Eucalyptus timber is used as support beams, fencing, trellis beams and many other types of design projects. The possibilities are endless. Because eucalyptus wood is more cost-effective than many other hardwoods, it’s gaining in popularity with architects and designers.

Desert roses

The desert roses can be found on salt flats found in deserts. They combine sand, salt and gypsum crystals. Those crystals are formed when the water evaporates. They often have a prism shape that grows up to one meter. The crystals are affected by erosion, salt, sand, and other elements in the desert, which give them a petal’s shape.

Sandstone waves

The Wave is comprised of Navajo Sandstone dunes. It has calcified vertically and horizontally, turning into hardened, compacted rocks over time. The peculiar and unique fluctuating stratum was created by slow wind and rain erosion.

Travertine terraces

Travertine is a type of limestone commonly deposited by mineral springs through a process of rapid precipitation of carbonate minerals. It often settles in a stepped, terraced formation when the water of a mineral spring cascades down a hill or cliff.

Permafrost explosions

Essentially, the blast is an ejection of gases from permafrost. And it is frozen layer of ground that is now melting across cold terrains with rising temperatures.

Nacreous clouds

Nacreous clouds form in the lower stratosphere over polar regions when the Sun is just below the horizon. The ice particles that form nacreous clouds are much smaller than those that form more common clouds.

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