Tuesday, January 6, 2015
What are the beautiful lakes in the world which can also endanger lives? Here we show 9 of them.
1. Ijen crater, Indonesia
Ijen crater located between Banyuwangi and Bondowoso, East Java, Indonesia. Volcanic crater is located right at the top of Mount Ijen.
Ijen crater itself is a crater lake heat with a stunning panorama. Beautiful water color, light blue-green. Ijen crater known as one of the crater lakes with the highest acid content in the world. Once the thick acid content there that can make all the things that plunged there no trace disappeared. Moreover, sulfur pile that could make anyone who inhale poisoning.
2. Berkeley Pit, United States
From a distance the lake surface in Butte, Montana it was colored dark blue with calm waters, beautiful eyes. But the color was actually just a trick of the eye alone, because the murky lake water reflecting the sky color.
Berkeley Pit, the lake is known as the 'most deadly lake in the United States'. According to the Web ecoist, the lake is famous poisonous. Berkeley Pit is actually not even a lake. Berkeley Pit is actually the remnants of mine who hold 40 billion gallons of acid water and toxic chemicals, such as copper, arsenic, cadmium, zinc and sulfuric acid.
The lake is used as tourist attractions, whereas the toxicity tests prove the high level of contamination in the lake water.
3. Lake Natron, Tanzania
Lake Natron is a salt lake located in northern Tanzania, near the border with Kenya. The lake water is sourced from the River Ewaso Ng'iro and mineral hot ir eyes nearby. Depth is only about three feet.
What makes it unique is the lake surface of Mars looks like we imagined in fiction. Bright red with full surface cracks. The salt content in the water of the lake is the perfect habitat of Halophile, microorganisms that produce a red pigment for photosynthesis.
Unfortunately, the condition of the lake environment inhospitable to other living beings. The region around the lake is very arid. No animals can survive in this lake. High alkaline content of the water of the lake makes the body of every living creature dry up like a mummy.
4. Green Crater Dallol, Ethiopia
Dallol is a volcanic crater located in the heart of the desert Danokil, Ethiopia. Dallol glance looks like a lake with a beautiful green water. In addition, the surrounding scenery is very impressive, with a similar coral stones yellow and bright orange.
Reported curiosity, color bright green and bright yellow in acid pools were due to sulfur, iron, and high mineral.
The plains landscape consists of springs with high acid content, sulfur hills, mounds of salt, and the occasional geysers spouting gas. Dallol is touted as one of the hottest places on earth. Temperatures there can reach 94 degrees Fahrenheit. High temperature along with poisonous gas that is ready to gush at any time from one of the geysers there makes Dallol as an amazing place that also endanger lives.
5. Lake Karachay, Russia
Karachay is the name of a small lake located in the southern Urals, Russia. Since 1951, the Soviet Union had used Karachay as a dumping ground for radioactive waste. That's why the lake is filled with high concentrations of toxic materials.
Because Lake Karachay already heavily contaminated with radioactive waste, Worldwatch Institute based in Washington, DC described as the most polluted places on earth.
6. Boiling Lake, Dominican Republic
Boiling Lake or 'boiling lake' is situated in the Morne Trois Pitons National Park. This lake is a world heritage site that is located in Dominica.
This lake is one of the attractions Dominican pride. The lake has water that is so hot. That's why he was given the name of Boiling Lake. Once hot water there, until the lake is always covered with hot steam.
7. Mono Lake, United States
According to Wikipedia, Mono Lake is a salt lake located in Mono County, California, United States.
This salt lake has an area of 183 square kilometers or 45 144 hectares and is one of the oldest lakes in North America. This lake has a very high salt content.
Because the water is taken for human consumption needs, eventually the concentration of salt in there jumped to double in just 40 years after the exploitation begins. High salinity, combined with carbonate, chloride, and sulfur damaging Mono lake water ecosystem sustainability. Be Lake Mono one of the most toxic waters in the United States.
8. Lake Nyos, Cameroon
Lake Nyos is a crater lake that is rich in minerals. The lake water produces toxic fumes with a high content of carbon dioxide that can spread as far as a dozen kilometers.
In 1986, the carbon gas explosion at Lake Nyos disaster could create. Poisonous gas that killed the villagers and animals that live near the lake.
9. Lake Kivu, Congo-Rawanda
Kivu is the name of a lake located on the border of Congo and Rwanda, Africa. The lake is also as dangerous as Lake Nyos. Not only emit carbon gases are highly toxic, Lake Kivu also contain flammable methane.
Methane and carbon makes Lake Kivu as one of the most deadly in the world's lakes.