Friday, December 2, 2011

GEOLOGICAL WONDERS ... THE GATES OF HELL

 

The Gates of Hell

THE GATES OF HELL

Darwaza – a city in Turkmenistan, where there is an impressive geological formation, called the Gates of Hell. This hole in the ground has inexhaustible supplies of fuel gas. It is believed that about 35 years ago, geologists who drilled the ground to detect the gas, dug too deep and the ground collapsed. Geologists have not dared to climb into the hole to pick up their equipment. Fearing that the poisonous gas could come out of the land, they set fire to the gas in the hole and then lit a fire here permanently.

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