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Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone. AMAZING!
#18948905 - 10/08/13 10:22 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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There's a deceptively still body of water in Tanzania with a deadly secret—it turns any animal it touches to stone. The rare phenomenon is caused by the chemical makeup of the lake, but the petrified creatures it leaves behind are straight out of a horror film.
Photographed by Nick Brandt in his new book, Across the Ravaged Land, petrified creatures pepper the area around the lake due to its constant pH of 9 to 10.5—an extremely basic alkalinity that preserves these creatures for eternity. According to Brandt:
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I unexpectedly found the creatures - all manner of birds and bats - washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania. No-one knows for certain exactly how they die, but it appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lake’s surface confuses them, and like birds crashing into plate glass windows, they crash into the lake. The water has an extremely high soda and salt content, so high that it would strip the ink off my Kodak film boxes within a few seconds. The soda and salt causes the creatures to calcify, perfectly preserved, as they dry.
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I took these creatures as I found them on the shoreline, and then placed them in ‘living’ positions, bringing them back to ‘life’, as it were. Reanimated, alive again in death.
http://gizmodo.com/any-animal-that-touches-this-lethal-lake-turns-to-stone-1436606506
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Re: Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone. AMAZING! [Re: snoot]
#18948910 - 10/08/13 10:24 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Holy shit! This is awesome but creepy as hell haha
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Re: Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone. AMAZING! [Re: VivaLaMushie] 1
#18948935 - 10/08/13 10:32 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Wow, this is truly amazing. Just to imagine a lake that tears the hydrogen out of every water molecule in your body.
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Re: Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone. AMAZING! [Re: K1ngSp4de]
#18948983 - 10/08/13 10:48 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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K1ngSp4de said: Wow, this is truly amazing. Just to imagine a lake that tears the hydrogen out of every water molecule in your body.
Who will be the first. I wouldnt mind this as my burial method.
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Re: Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone. AMAZING! [Re: snoot]
#18949077 - 10/08/13 11:13 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Did he go around picking up dead preserved birds and bats to tie them to trees? Pretty grim.
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Re: Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone. AMAZING! [Re: snoot]
#18949086 - 10/08/13 11:16 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I don't believe this. This would be..too good...
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Re: Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone. AMAZING! [Re: fiddle]
#18949092 - 10/08/13 11:18 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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That's so far out man, I really dig how he placed the preserved animal carcasses back into their natural positions.
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Re: Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone. AMAZING! [Re: snoot]
#18949104 - 10/08/13 11:20 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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K1ngSp4de said: Wow, this is truly amazing. Just to imagine a lake that tears the hydrogen out of every water molecule in your body.
Who will be the first. I wouldnt mind this as my burial method.
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Re: Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone. AMAZING! [Re: Sham87]
#18949154 - 10/08/13 11:32 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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rest assured, their deaths were not without honor.
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Re: Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone. AMAZING! [Re: Bill_Oreilly] 1
#18949208 - 10/08/13 11:44 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Bill_Oreilly said: I don't believe this. This would be..too good...
It is real, but it doesn't do it instantly and there are animals that are adapted to it.
http://www.geekosystem.com/natron-birds/
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Re: Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone. AMAZING! [Re: snoot]
#18949424 - 10/08/13 12:33 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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That's really, really neat. Thanks for sharing, OP!
Calcifying sounds like an awful way to die.
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Re: Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone. AMAZING! [Re: Hellogoodbyedeath]
#18949470 - 10/08/13 12:45 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone. AMAZING! [Re: The Ecstatic]
#18949599 - 10/08/13 01:20 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I guess if you wanted a rock hound, you'd just kick one into the water.
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#18949787 - 10/08/13 02:10 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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hope nobody was dumped there.
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Re: Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone. AMAZING! [Re: akira_akuma]
#18949895 - 10/08/13 02:37 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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like a rock hound? i'd be out there collecting those fossils for my yard.
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Re: Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone. AMAZING! [Re: passifloracaerulea]
#18949933 - 10/08/13 02:44 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone. AMAZING! [Re: g00ru]
#18949976 - 10/08/13 02:52 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I don't know. they look pretty stony. think of the rarity and sites where well preserved fossils are found and then a lot of times an alkali lakebed is the best preserved site of ancient fossils. it's not the only mechanism but it works.
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Re: Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone. AMAZING! [Re: passifloracaerulea] 1
#18949989 - 10/08/13 02:55 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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maybe they are just covered in salt and debris...'petrified' by the high alkalinity but not actually stone like a stone statue. Those are really neat photos tho.
but after seeing a color photo of the lake with a bunch of flamingos sitting in it i have a different impression of the artworks...he's clearly adding to the effect with the black and white
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Re: Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone. AMAZING! [Re: g00ru] 1
#18950023 - 10/08/13 03:01 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I saw this a while ago. Pretty cool. But I wonder how much less magestic it would look in color lol
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Re: Any Animal That Touches This Lethal Lake Turns to Stone. AMAZING! [Re: JacksonMetaller]
#18950046 - 10/08/13 03:07 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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if it's alkali, then it would be black and white almost anyway. flamingos like to hang out in highly alkaline areas because they eat the brine shrimp and have some resistance against the alkali.
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