Blue Holes

Preview:

Citation preview

Wonderful places

Bluе -Holes

Blue-Holes

The main secret of Andros is connected with waters of Dark blue hole (Blue-Holes). They really seem ink-blue because of a deep water. The Island Andros entering into archipelago of the Bahamas, represents a congestion of islets and coral shallows with set of passages. Its length - about 160 km, and width - about 65 km. The island from three parties is surrounded by the warm small seas. Has brought the fourth – east – coast. It calls Tongue of ocean.

Tongue of ocean

If to look at island from above, it is necessary to notice the wrong form dark blue stains are and there are inputs in an underground labyrinth of the flooded caves connected among themselves by transitions and galleries.

It is considered that formation of these places has begun about 130 million years ago. Change of the periods called sea level differences, the part of caves has appeared under water, but has soon fallen. Other caves on the contrary grew upwards, and in some places open mines were formed thus. Then again water has come, and there were dark blue holes.

THE END

Recommended