These 14 Stunning Photos Capture Some Of The Most Amazing Natural Phenomena

They say pictures are worth a thousand words, but I think these photos are worth even more than that.

Sometimes we don’t appreciate what’s going on around us, take a look at nature for example.

It’s quite spectacular what mother nature does on a daily basis.

Awesome occurrences, cool formations and so on.

Check out these 14 photos below as they show the true power of mother nature.

1. Volcanic lightning that sometimes occurs over eruptions.

This phenomena is known as “dirty thunderstorms.”

credit: Martin Rietze

 

2. The Ik-Kil Cenote in Chichen Itza, Mexico

A “cenote” is where a deposit of spring water is found underground.

 3. Lake Kaindy’s underwater forest in Kazakhstan.

credit: Zhirayr Nersessian

The sunken forest is entirely underwater and over 400 meters long. It was created as a result of an enormous limestone landslide.

credit: English Russia

 

4. Abraham Lake’s frozen air bubbles.

credit: Chip Philips

The artificial lake is located on North Saskatchewan River in western Alberta, Canada. Plants at the bottom of the lake release air, as the air floats up towards the surface it freezes because of the lake’s extreme temperatures.

5. A giant crystal cave in Mexico is 950 feet (290 meters) underground. See those orange figures? Yeah, they’re people.

credit: Atlas Obscura

 

6. Vaadhoo beach in the Maldives

credit: National Geographic / Photo by: Doug Perrine, Alamy

The neon water is caused by plankton in the water is reacting to minerals. The phenomenon is known as bio-luminescence.

7. Reflective salt flats in Bolivia. Salar de Uyuni

The world’s largest salt flat; the surface is entirely covered in crystallized salt, causing the surface to look like a mirror.

8. The Blood-Falls located in Antarctica

credit: Peter Rejcek, National Science Foundation

Iron oxide-rich saltwater causes the blood like coloration

9.  Light Pillar

credit: Jasper Nance

A visual phenomenon known as a light pillar is created by the reflection of light from ice crystals near horizontal parallel planar surfaces.

10. The Spouting Horn at Cook’s Chasm and the Thor’s Well located off the coast of Oregon.

credit: Nikky Stephen

 

11. Wave sandstone

credit: DIVA007

 

The Wave sandstone formation located at the Coyote Buttes in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, located in Arizona.

 

12. The Rainbow Eucalyptus trees located in Kailua, Hawaii.

The color of the tress comes from the outer bark that shed annually at different times. This results in rainbow barked.

credit: thaths

 

13. Spider web trees located in Pakistan.

A tremendous flood in Pakistan led to spiders fleeing into tress, they stayed there so long that they covered the trees entirely in spider webs.

credit: UK Department for International Development

 

14. Mushroom clouds over Beijing, China.

Unusual weather in China sometimes causes these giant clouds.

credit: XIANG RYC/IMAGINECHINA

 

Pretty incredible right. I could looks at these photos all day.

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