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Published on Nov 23, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

TOP 7 NATURAL WONDERS (THAT YOU'VE NEVER SEEN)

BY MARK

CAÑO CRISTALES RIVER-COLOMBIA

  • Water level dips during the brief window between the wet and dry season
  • The water level dips just enough where the sunlight hits the moss at the right amount
  • Making the moss explode into colors
  • COlors vary from pink, Purple, Blue, red

EFFECTS OF PEOPLE

  • Water pollution
  • Loss of habitat

THE STONE FOREST-CHINA

  • Giant stalagmite looking rocks coming up from the ground.
  • They cover an area of 350km (217mi)
  • Limestone came up sea level went down
  • wind eroded the weaker stone leaving the stronger limestone.

EFFECTS OF PEOPLE

  • MIning

THE MARBLE CAVES-CHILE

  • Most beautiful cave network in the world
  • 6000 years of erosion carved out these caves
  • Colors change due to water level, season, and light

EFFECTS OF PEOPLE

  • Stealing marble over many years
  • Explosion

SARISARIÑAMA SINKHOLES-VENEZUELA

  • 4 sinkholes on the top of a flat mountain
  • 352 meters wide and 314 meters deep (1155ft/1030ft)
  • Discovered in 1961 by a pilot flying above

EFFECTS OF PEOPLE

  • Air pollution
  • Climate change

CAVE OF THE CRYSTALS-MEXICO

  • Cave 300 meters below the surface (984ft
  • Gypsum crystals
  • 12 meters length/4 meters diameter
  • Weighed 55 tons (39ft/13ft)
  • Discovered in 2000

EFFECTS OF PEOPLE

  • Using the crystals

ICE TOWERS OF MOUNT EREBUS-ANTARCTICA

  • 2nd highest volcano in Antarctica
  • On the slope of the volcano are 18meter tall (59ft) ice towers that continuously spew out steam from the caves below
  • In a place where temperatures reach -93°c (-153°f) this ice towers look almost magica
  • The ice is so thick it doesn't melt even though there is high temperature steam coming out of them

EFFECTS OF PEOPLE

  • Greenhouse effect

THE EYE OF THE SAHARA-MAURITANIA

  • This eye stretches 15km across (31miles)
  • This eye was eroded over many years from wind blowing off layers of sand and sediment
  • Despite intense field and lab research they still don't know the origin of this eye

EFFECTS OF PEOPLE

  • MIne for the sediment

THE EFFECTS OF PEOPLE

  • These attractions will disappear
  • If we continue this path

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