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Showing posts with label Geology - Beaches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geology - Beaches. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

THE SIBERIAN GLASS BEACH WHERE NATURE TURNED POLLUTION INTO BEAUTY - A former dumping ground for old bottles has been reclaimed by ocean waves into a beach of beautiful glass pebbles

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The beach used to be too dangerous for locals to walk across. But over the decades, the waves have eroded the glass away to form beautiful smooth stones

The beach where nature has transformed a Russian dumping ground for old vodka bottles into a place of beauty because waves have smoothed broken glass into ‘pebbles’ .  Glass originally comes from silica, or sand.
  • Glass Beach on Ussuri Bay, near Vladivostok, was a Soviet dump for old bottles
  • Over time, the jagged glass smoothed into kaleidoscopic pebbles
  • The area is now called Glass Beach and is protected by Russian authorities
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