Himpunan kisah menarik seluruh dunia..: The hottest place on the planet

Volcano Dallol (Dallol) - Vulan lowest in the world, located at 48 meters below sea level and has a diameter of 1450 m crater, formed on the planet more than 900 million years ago. The average annual temperature at Dallol is also unique. In the 60-ies of XX century it was 34 ° Celsius, which to this day remains the highest average annual temperature.

You may ask, how did such rich and cutting the eye color? Scientists explain it this way: after the explosion and eruption in 1926 (by the way, from the time the volcano "silent") in its crater lake formed acid. And a distinctive white, yellow and red colors are not more than a result of staining with different ions of sulfur and potash. Added picture is cosmic constant emissions of gases originating (fumaroles) like huge eggs.

Let's learn more about it ...

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Getting to the slopes of Erta Ale, where next to volcano crater, is eponymous African village Dallol, the impression of the landscape surrounding extraterrestrial origin, which are based on frozen in bizarre forms of lava, sulfur and andesite. Astronauts say volcanic landscapes resemble Io, a satellite of Jupiter.

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It is believed that the volcano was formed by the eruption of basaltic magma body beneath the volcano, so it has a bizarre shape. Mouth of a volcano, which lies in the remote area of Ethiopia, surround hills, 50-60 meters towering above the plains, entirely covered with salt areas. It is believed that having a size of the perimeter of 1.5 km x 3 km Dallol volcano crater is located on the top of the Quaternary sediments, including a huge deposit of potassium salts, and the hills are preserved remnants of the crater walls. But the age of these hills and the process of their origin still remains a mystery even to scientists.

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Visiting the volcano, even now you can witness the processes of volcanic activity , see how washed out and transported from the depths of the volcano on the surface of the salt to dissolve in hot thermal springs or freeze bizarre rounded forms have yellow, red, white and green shades. Dallol can be found on numerous areas of fumaroles (fumarole), aggradation thin layers of salt, forming oval education white, somewhat resembling large birds eggs. Dallol volcano has just two lava lakes, one of which is located in the crater of the volcano.

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Not far from Dallol volcano near Blackrock erupts annually about 1,000 tons of salt, which the locals cut into rectangular slabs and transported by camel to the nearest major cities. These plates are later sold in Mekele for processing into table salt.

There is a legend that the mouth of a volcano Dallol - those gates in hellhole that Ethiopian Enoch described in ancient manuscript "Book of Enoch."According to this pundit who created history in 1. BC, end of the world will be a part of our world to break into the abyss, which will absorb it with fire.Also records stern patriarch mentions people who guards the gates of hell. Despite the fact that Enoch did not indicate the geographical position of this terrible place, some scholars suggest it is logical that it may well be Dallol Enoch Ethiopian? Ethiopian. Dallol - the hottest place? That's right. Triebes - Aki Cerberus? Certainly. So there is some sense in theory these scientists.

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Dallol volcano to see with their own eyes the traveler should make quite a feat - and it's not just empty words. The fact that a place called Dallol, in which both the eponymous volcano, located in northern Ethiopia and is known for the fact that there are no roads as a class. You can get here only by way of the caravan, which was constructed to collect and deliver the salt. Moreover, it is the most remote from civilization place in the world and probably superfluous to say that it is uninhabited. Therefore, not everyone decided on a dangerous adventure.

The volcano is located in the Afar region , at a distance of one day's journey from Mekele (Mekele) and 2 days away from the main road to Addis Ababa (Addis-Ababa)-Djibouti (Djibouti). Travellers who are fortunate enough to visit Erta Ale, Dallol volcano is considered one of the most extraordinary places on the planet.

Coordinates: 14 ° 14 '30 "N, 40 ° 18' 0" E

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Can be seen on the surface of salt crystals, which is washed out of the lower layers of the ground and transported to the surface of geothermal hot water.Ethiopians take away from this whole crustal plates consisting of salt to sell it later for processing into cookery.

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Dallol name came about because the Afar tribe and means "disintegration", which is very well characterized by the local landscape, with green lakes with the iron oxide, salt plains, hot springs and a variety of bizarre formations

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In the crater of a volcano in Dallol travelers waiting: 1. Life without the benefits of civilization 2. Acquaintance with the life of the local people; 3. Desert with abandoned mines and volcano, spread over many kilometers. However, not all as bad as you might think. Scientists have firmly established that the volcano is not going to be activated in the near future, and the locals are not that dangerous. This place is just perfect for lovers of extreme travel, those people who love to solve the mysteries that we cooked wildlife.

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You look around and every now and then in doubt whether the beginning of the 21th century and now in the world are you? Or in the foreseeable future on another planet?

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