It also does preserve many of these animals’ bodies, specifically due to the combination of chemicals that are deposited into the water via runoff from a nearby Great Rift Valley volcano, Ol Doinyo Lengai.
Lake natron turns animals to stone skin#
As the New Scientist says, the lake can reach temperatures up to 60 ☌ and has an alkalinity between pH 9 and pH 10.5, making it pretty dang gross on the best of days - it can even burn the skin and eyes of animals who aren’t adapted to it. No one is disputing that Natron is a dangerous place for most species, of course. Case in point: after those gorgeous pictures of mummified Lake Natron birds made the rounds, now everybody thinks that the lake has supernatural gorgon-like powers. Sometimes the media does this thing where it takes something incredibly fascinating and turns into a crappy game of telephone, and at the end everybody believes something completely fake. Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by Nobody: 3:57am On Oct 08, 2013Ĭontrary to Popular Belief, Lake Natron Does Not Instantly Turn Birds To Stone 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. The soda and salt causes the creatures to calcify, perfectly preserved, as they dry. 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. 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. I unexpectedly found the creatures - all manner of birds and bats - washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania. 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. 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.
There’s a deceptively still body of water in Tanzania with a deadly secret - it turns any animal it touches to stone. The petrified creatures it leaves behind seem straight out of a horror film. My brothers n sisters if u know what times d bible says things like dis shall happen abeg click the "LIKE" hand side The 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. The rare phenomenon is caused by the chemical makeup of the lake. There’s a deceptively still body of water in Tanzania with a deadly secret…
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