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WATERFALL,free fall of water flow from a steep cliff. Many waterfalls consist of a series of shallow waterfalls, or cascades, where water falls from one ledge to another. The difference between a cascade and a series of thresholds is rather arbitrary. The term “sill” is usually used for the section of a river where water falls down a rocky slope of less steepness. At some waterfalls, for example, Yosemite in the Sierra Nevada (California, USA), in dry seasons, water consumption is greatly reduced and free fall stops, since it practically does not detach from the surface of the bedrock.

The genesis of waterfalls depends on the nature of the ledge that crosses the stream. Niagara Falls, on the border between the United States and Canada, formed at the point where the Niagara River crosses a steep bedrock ledge. This scarp is a layer of erosion-resistant rock overlying the softer rock. The destruction of the latter under the influence of falling water leads to the erosion of the layer of solid rocks and its periodic collapse. Many famous waterfalls originated in this way.

In mountainous areas, high waterfalls are often confined to the mouths of hanging valleys-tributaries, formed as a result of glaciers deepening the channels of the main rivers. Hanging valleys also formed when the main stream of the river system cut in faster than its tributaries. Most of the high waterfalls in Norway, the Alps and the glaciated mountains in western North America and New Zealand are confined to the mouths of the hanging valleys.

Other waterfalls formed where mountain ranges or parts of them were uplifted, for example, as a result of faults in the earth's crust. Streams that do not have enough erosional power to cut in to compensate for the uplifting effect are driven off the ledge along the fault.

The role of waterfalls in human life.

Waterfalls, cascades and rapids pose major obstacles to navigation. They can be bypassed by canals with locks that allow ships to gradually rise or fall from one level to another. For example, the Welland shipping channel in the Ontario province (Canada), bypasses Niagara Falls. Through this channel, ocean liners enter the Great Lakes. The Ohio and St. Anthony Falls were reinforced to halt further channel destruction in the upper Mississippi. For this, expensive bypass locks were built there, allowing river vessels to continue their journey upstream. And at the stage of early development and settlement of the territory of North America, the waterfalls significantly hindered the advancement of the pioneers, they had to be bypassed, and the goods had to be carried by dragging.

Waterfalls are an exceptional source of electricity, the production of which depends on the height of the fall and the volume of water directed to the rotation of the turbines. In the early stages of industrialization, the location of industrial sites in many countries was predetermined by the location of waterfalls. For example, thanks to the production of hydropower within the so-called. The line of waterfalls separating the hard rocks of Piedmont and the soft sedimentary strata of the Atlantic Coastal Plain in the eastern United States, this area was assigned an important role in the economy of the country. The line of waterfalls largely determined the position of such large cities as Richmond, Baltimore and Philadelphia.

MOST KNOWN WATERFALLS IN THE WORLD

Angelon the Churun \u200b\u200bRiver (Caroni River basin, Venezuela) - the world's highest waterfall, total height 1054 m, free fall height 979 m.

Tugelaon the river of the same name (Natal province, South Africa), total height 853 m, free fall height 518 m.

Yosemite - cascade of waterfalls on the Yosemite Creek River (California, USA), total height 739 m, the highest Upper Yosemite Falls - 436 m.

Kukenanon the river of the same name (Orinoco river basin, Venezuela), height 625 m.

Sutherlandon the Arthur River (South Island, New Zealand), height 580 m.

Ribbonon the Merced River (California, USA), height 491 m.

Wallomombieon the McLay River (New South Wales, Australia), height 482 m.

Gavarnieon the Po river (basin of the Adour river, Central Pyrenees, France), height 422 m.

Silver Strandon the Medow River (California, USA), height 357 m.

Bridlevaleon the Merced River (Yosemite National Park, California, USA), height 189 m.

Seti Kedas (Guaira)on the Parana river (on the border of Brazil and Paraguay), height approx. 114 m. It is believed that this waterfall has the highest average discharge of all waterfalls in the world (793,000 m 3 / min).

Victoria on the Zambezi river (on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe), height from 60 to 107 m, length approx. 1.5 km. The waterfall falls into a huge narrow abyss and disappears into it.

Yellowstone Upper and Loweron the Yellowstone River (Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA), the height is 33 and 94 m, respectively.

Iguazuon the river of the same name (on the border of Argentina and Brazil), height 73 m.

Niagaraon the river of the same name (on the border of the USA and Canada). The waterfall is divided into two main parts: the Canadian one - 51 m high and the American one - 49 m high. The waterfall is famous for its high flow rate - approx. 426,000 m 3 / min.

A waterfall is formed only where the rock in the river bed is hard enough. If the rock is easily affected by water, the waterfall disappears. Of course, it is impossible to withstand the onslaught of flowing water, so all the waterfalls someday collapse or move upstream.

It happens that a river suddenly blocks off a sudden mountain landslide or lava flow during a volcanic eruption. The water level rises, reaches the top of the dam, and the river falls from a great height to the place where it used to flow. The very top of the stone ledge, from where the water begins to fall, is called the crest of the waterfall.

The gigantic cauldrons that form in the river along the entire path of the receding waterfall join together and form gorges. The depth of some boilers may be equal to the height of the waterfall itself.

The waterfall moves for hundreds of years before the blocks of stone, washed away by the flowing water, do not begin to fall out and are carried away by a seething stream. The place from which the water falls is gradually shifting, becoming lower or completely destroyed. That's when the waterfall disappears.

Most often, the water rushes from ledge to ledge, forming a chain of large and small waterfalls, which are called cascades. Sometimes the water destroys the ridge so much that it flushes the bed in a steep cliff, and therefore does not fall vertically, but rolls down a rocky gutter. These are the rapids. Very often waterfalls are a complex system of rapids and cascades.

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Waterfalls. Where does so much continuous water from the tops of the mountains come from?

SECRETS OF THE EARTH. Waterfalls. Where does so much continuous water from the mountain tops come from?

Where the deep rivers come from - we, more or less, understand. But where do the deep waterfalls come from, and even from the very tops of the mountains - we still have no idea ...

WATERFALLS. AS LITTLE WE KNOW ABOUT THEM ...

The tag “does not exist” has amused me in recent years. For example, "space does not exist" or "deserts", "quarries", "pyramids". He even ran into the trolling machine of the System, "something never exists for him." It exists, my dears, it exists, so turn down the volume so that the tonsils do not catch cold. It's just not in the understanding in which they imposed on us with youth, when words were empty containers for children, which should have been filled with fruit juice of associations and meaning, but instead they were filled with sand and forced children to chew on nothing for the most active years.

CHAPTER ONE. WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE DO NOT KNOW.

Or rather, what do we know about what we don’t know? It is much more correct to ask this, so as not to offend anyone and induce them to study. And not to defend what is written in books. What is a waterfall, Wikipedia decided to brush it off with logic:

“A waterfall is a fall of water in a river from a ledge that crosses a river bed. Unlike river rapids, waterfalls are characterized by a sharp drop in the height of the river bottom and a sheer fall ”

Other sources say in the same spirit “to find out what a waterfall is, study what a river is”, although more often, in my opinion, everything is exactly the opposite: “in order to find out what a river is, you need to know what a waterfall is ”. After all, the modern concept of the emergence of rivers into any gate. And one should not think that there are no unbearable scientists - there is only a narrow doorway.

We are told that the causes of the rivers are precipitation ... although we all often go somewhere, we pass many kilometers of fields and do not meet any water body nearby. I do not even say at what distances from each other the CONSTANTLY FLOWING rivers. So any lawyer will justify the fallout at the trial - innocent. Also, consider a lake in New Zealand and the Sutherland Falls, falling from a height of 580 meters.

These are the mountain peaks of the Southern Alps. Can you associate this lake and constantly falling waterfall with precipitation?

“Groundwater” is generally a screen covering many things. For example, in the emerging so-called “karst sinkholes” we see that there are no ground waters or rivers nearby. Although their appearance on the groundwater and spiral, they say washed out. I am embarrassed to ask where it was washed, in which cavities and voids? They tried to find the cause in the pumped out oil and gas, although "karst" ones, if you look at a thousand binoculars along the axis, appear more often where mining is not observed at all along a many kilometers circle.

You can immediately put a cross on the melting of glaciers and snow, since we examined the “precipitation” above. And in order to finally expel from you the demon of official science that has taken over, we will carry out an exorcism with this text, which is known to science about precipitation:

Scientists don't know why it's raining! What do they know? Do not wonder. In the academies of sciences, really, they do not know: why it rains. Modern scientists only state the fact of precipitation and the movement of air masses. In understanding the essence of these processes, they are not far from children ... The hypotheses put forward by modern “scientists” raise suspicions about the sanity of those who put them forward. Or, at best, “laughter through tears” ...

You know, in childhood - adolescence, I thought that scientists are "the smartest uncles." That working as a scientist is much more difficult and more responsible than an electrician or a plumber. But maturity came and there was no trace of my childhood dreams. It turned out that being a scientist, you can easily be a complete idiot and write any nonsense. Fortunately, there is no responsibility. A plumber's mistake is a dwelling house flooded with feces, an electrician's mistake is a fire, injury. And modern “scientists” can make as many mistakes as they like. Nobody will fire them and nobody will suffer from their activities. Nobody takes seriously the nonsense that they write! Sorry for the long introduction.

So. RAIN. “Scientists” explain rain as “the water cycle in nature”. Allegedly, water evaporating from the surface rises upwards, cools, condenses, forming clouds and falls on the Earth as rain. However, in reality everything happens completely differently. On the Indonesian islands, where there is constant heat and around the Ocean, there is a drought for months. And in the central regions of Russia it constantly snows in winter. Although there is a 20-degree frost and the nearest Ocean is thousands of kilometers away! If the rains depended on evaporation, they would constantly fall in Indonesia! And in Siberia, snow would never fall!

CHAPTER TWO. THE VERY IMPORTANT FACT IS VERY RARELY REMEMBERED.

Rivers and waterfalls were associated with “groundwater”, although in fact waterfalls are more often found in mountains and rocks, as rivers often start from there. You can see a lot of different ground drops and not a single river flowing from there or a falling waterfall. For that, we often see them among the so-called "stone rocks".

Do you see any hint of ground connection? For that we see "rocks". Pay attention to how smooth the plates are - they are not for nothing.

There are waterfalls in the “rapids” of the river, like a long waterfall with the colorful name Victoria:

Niagara:

I will not argue about this type of waterfalls and they are not discussed in this publication.

The Iguazu Falls, or as it is also called "The Devil's Throat", which is located in Brazil, could be ranked to the same type:

But again, these even steps of the slabs draw attention to themselves:

And there are a number of waterfalls that do not fit into the generally accepted concept at all, and this fact is rarely spoken about:

This is the highest Angel Falls.

The world's tallest waterfall is approximately one kilometer long. The stream of water falls continuously from a height of approximately 979 meters, 51 meters more than Niagara Falls. This is Angel Falls, which is located in Venezuela. It was named after the American pilot James Angel, who discovered it in 1937, flying over these places.

It is interesting to us because it falls from the very “rock”.

Do you see signs of soil here? Some "rocks". But the associations instilled in us "precipitation" and "groundwater", which somewhat disorientated us in the correct perception. To say the least.

Kukenan Falls:

And again we see an amazing case, because of which it would be necessary to cry out “fantastic!” If we take the generally accepted concept as a basis. Waterfalls and from the very cliff, precisely from its tips! Such a small space as to write off precipitation. No soil, only "rocks". Where is? Also in Venezuela. And there are a lot of interesting things:

And it is not surprising that this place was discovered in our time and they write about it “Tepui is the only place on Earth where no human has ever set foot.”

CHAPTER THREE. A WATERFALL, A SYMBOL OF A DYING LIFE OR REVIVING?

There is an image that we, like hens in a barn, live under slate - until this slate breaks through the hail, we will think that this is heaven. We really haven't gotten far from chickens in thinking. In terms of parameters - in comparison with the past, we are not even ants.

What will happen to grapes if they are cut? That's right, it will start to flow:

Many of you are absolutely right, who have already guessed that I associate waterfalls and many rivers with “flint life”. And those who want to put their nose around “a new and exotic hypothesis, which was introduced as a fashion, and therefore implausible” ... would not want to upset you, but they talked about “flint life” even during the Soviet Union. Naturally in the highest circles. It means that we, commoners, were given only school textbooks, but the elite had small editions of books marked “strictly for official use”. And from time to time one of us will get to know the son of an oligarch and this book will be given to read on friendship.

This book is rich in illustrations and is painted up and down about "flint life". In addition to “flint life,” there is also a talk about a planetary power. About underground cities. About technologies of the past that are superior to ours. About Giants, and of different sizes. Here you are, the elite has undistorted knowledge of the world in easy access. And what do they give us? Those, in whom they themselves do not believe, for that forced the society to believe in them.

You can convince yourself of this yourself, armed with a search engine and setting the necessary search parameters for "stem mountains" and "waterfalls", after which go to the "photos" item and you will see that the generally accepted worldview that was imposed on us and as it really is , these are completely different things.

You will see these large streams that fall from the very top of the “rocks”.

According to the generally accepted concept, this is not possible. On flint - everything is logical.

But this only begs a reasonable question, after all, dead and withered trees do not flow ... when does the flint life get destroyed, since these “rocks” are still alive? Is this flint life dying or reborn?

CHAPTER FOUR. STONE IS A TREE.

If we are mischievous, then “wooden Russia”, based on this concept, is not so invented. Russia owned the craft not only of the carbon life tree, but also of the flint one. How do you like this view of the "rock":

Isn't it really a stump like a stump that is overgrown with mold?

The Scientific World ascribes these stone-wooden rocks of flint life to lava, although they themselves do not believe in it by themselves. The Scientific World was created in order to create for us generally accepted explanations ... the reasons why we are ripped off by taxes and under the guise of research they carry out restoration of decorations, as well as prey for the government of ancient technologies.

Have you ever worried that only certain scientists are allowed to carry out research, and that the rest of the services where simple hard workers work are brought to a lax state and left to the mercy? What if you live and are not interested in anything, regularly go to the robot and the elections according to the regulations, then no one cares about you, but if you just go beyond and start thinking differently, then you start to see the prohibitions on everything in front of your nose?

Communicating with the brothers of Europe and America, with the sane part of it, they say that their dictatorship is exactly the same as ours. I am already silent that hatred between the planetary power and patriotism towards “sovereigns with states” on the whole “planet” are instilled in accordance with the same copying method. Is that what a simple American cabbage seller did me? Or what did a simple taxi driver from Europe do to me? But the TV tells you and me what kind of enemies they are and how we should hate them. Exactly the same hatred for us is instilled in them, so that the planetary power does not awaken.

Who wanted to dig deeper under the “rocks” and see what was there?

Who was looking for roots?

CHAPTER FIVE. WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT TREE?

How do we mine coal:

The ants do exactly the same thing, covering the hemp with soil and grinding the wood into dust:

In gigantic proportions, but it's the same rubbish:

Not a sickly fallen tree:

Is the tree cut down for firewood? Please, someone did not cut the deck:

One more:

What else do they do with the wood, polish it? Here are the drawings that are on the polished board:

And here are the polished "rocks":

Is it not one to one?

And here is a more or less exclusive photo for you:

It is curious how this tree is described by official sources, a screen from Google from a "foreign" site:

Not only was the tree called a “sandy rock formation”, which makes it turn red, but they also ask for money for this whistle.

And of course, you rightly noticed that if there were giants, and the rocks, this is a tree, then there should at least somewhere, but some objects should remain from the flint tree. Here is the "chest" someone lost:

But the tree has already rotted over time, but it is clear that it was some kind of object:

A former barn? We see that the boards in it have completely rotted:

Entrance to the former "barn":

Geese in it were found brontosaurous with long-necked highs.

How do you like this mechanism:

I personally did not see an elephant here, I saw a household item. But, everyone compares to the extent of his licentiousness and the scientific world gave this object the nickname "rock-elephant". If you think so, then the stool also looks like a horse, but it is not.

Here you can see that the passage is artificial:

But if you zoom in on the photo and see what is inside it, you will see that the passage was cut in the killed tree itself. What, in relation to us, the huge giants were small gophers, in relation to the tree?

CONCLUSION

I will finish, otherwise some figures and so swear that I publish too long articles in which there are a lot of photos. I hope for you it was an interesting journey into other eyes from which the world is not so limited as we are told.

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Imagine a calm river that flows peacefully across the plains without encountering any obstacles in its path. Such rivers have a small height difference, which is caused by the natural relief of the earth, and over time the river washes its bed in it. But sometimes on its way the river meets various solid rocks and it takes a long time to wash them out. Until this happens, in the riverbed one can observe steep slopes, and the water from them no longer flows calmly, but rapidly falls down, and we call this place a waterfall.

The beginning of the waterfall, the place from which the water falls, is called the ridge of the waterfall. Over time, after the waterfalls are formed, the water begins to destroy the ridge, washing the bed in the steep slope, and the water stops falling vertically, it seems to slide down. This movement of water is called a water slide. Sometimes, when the water begins to erode a solid bed, you can observe something similar to steps, along which water descends, as if falling from one step to another. These waterfalls are called cascades.

The formation of waterfalls can be affected by sudden mountain falls or volcanic eruptions. In this case, the boulders blocking the path of the river will be the beginning of the waterfall. Obstacles to the movement of the river can be not only elevations, but also deep depressions. Earthquakes and displacements of the layers of the earth's crust can also be the reasons for the formation of waterfalls: in those places where rivers flow, deep cracks or gaps can form, flowing from which water forms a waterfall. Glaciers contributed to the formation of some waterfalls.

But no matter how strong the solid rocks are, none of them is able to withstand such an onslaught of rapidly moving water forever, therefore there is not only the birth of a waterfall, but also its death. Both the birth and death of the waterfall take thousands of years. The soil under the waterfall is gradually eroded by constantly moving water. The stones adjacent to the edges of the waterfall are also gradually eroded and chipped off, forming a new stream of water upstream. As we can see, the waterfalls "travel", moving upstream for several kilometers, but this movement stops when the surface layer is completely destroyed: the waterfall has turned into a threshold. Gradually the rapids turn into quieter sections of the river.

At all times, waterfalls have attracted people. The view of the water rapidly falling down is mesmerizing; quite often the waterfall becomes a "visiting card" of the area on which it is located. Millions of tourists annually go to see the waterfalls, the power and beauty of which is so attractive. In addition, some of them bring invaluable benefits to humanity: people use the enormous power of waterfalls as a source of energy and build hydroelectric power plants on the site of the waterfalls.

Attractive in their dangerous beauty, the waterfalls have always attracted attention and excited the human imagination.

Particularly fascinating is the realization that over the largest and most powerful of the bottom, such as Niagara, Victoria or Iguazu, a person has absolutely no power. They show us the beauty and power of living nature.

Geographical object. The meaning of waterfalls

Powerful waterfalls are an almost inexhaustible source of energy, which is widely used in the construction of hydroelectric power plants. Staying near waterfalls brings not only aesthetic pleasure, but also has a healing effect: water falling from a height forms mist, in which negatively charged ions are formed under the influence of sunlight. Such dust, saturated with phytoncides of plants, which are always in abundance near waterfalls, has a very large positive effect on the body.

However, there are also unpleasant contacts with waterfalls for humans. Waterfalls and rapids that cannot be curbed are a major barrier to navigation. Therefore, on many rivers, where there are waterfalls, navigable channels are laid, allowing liners and ships to make a safe journey.

Characteristics and types of waterfalls

The waterfall is a stream of water falling from a steep cliff. Large waterfalls often consist of a chain of small rapids and cascades. One of the features of large waterfalls is their "movement": a constant drop in water leads to the destruction of the ledge and the movement of the waterfall up the river.

It is noteworthy that almost all the powerful waterfalls in the world are located on the border of two or three states. And this is understandable, because a large waterfall is a natural insurmountable barrier that protects the territory of the state much more reliably than the most modern devices and weapons.

Types of waterfalls:

• cataract - a large waterfall, in which the bulk of the water falls in a wide canvas from a relatively low height;
• water slide - a smooth, sloping waterfall without steep drops of water;
• cascade - a series of waterfalls located one after another.

The origin of waterfalls

The origin of waterfalls is different. For example, they can appear due to the fact that the river crosses a natural scarp, which was formed even before the appearance of water. In another case, the appearance of a waterfall may be the result of the activity of the river itself, eroding the soft layers of rocks.

In the mountains, a large number of waterfalls owe their appearance to tectonic activity. Also in the mountainous areas there are many waterfalls that have arisen in the hanging valleys due to an overabundance of water from glaciers in the rivers.

The largest waterfalls in the world

Since waterfalls vary in width, height and amount of water carried, there is no one that bears the title of the largest. Let's list some of the most powerful and widest waterfalls that adorn our planet.

(Kon waterfall)

So, the widest waterfall in the world - Kon - located on the border of Cambodia and Laos on the Mekong River. The Kona drainage is over 12.5 km wide. Actually, this is a cascading system of waterfalls located in a surprisingly beautiful place. By the way, Kon is also considered one of the calmest among the famous waterfalls. Opened in 1920.

(Iguazu Falls)

The title of the most powerful waterfall in the world belongs to Iguazu, aka "The Devil's Throat", on the border of Argentina and Brazil. Every minute, over the ledge of the waterfall, such an amount of water rushes down, which is difficult even to imagine - 700 thousand m 3! Iguazu, with 275 cascades, is not only dangerous and powerful, but also mesmerizingly beautiful. The waterfall was discovered in 1541.

(Niagara Falls)

And, of course, one cannot fail to mention the most famous waterfalls in the world - NiagaraVictoria... Niagara Falls, located on the Niagara River on the border of the United States and Canada, is relatively low - its height is only 52 m.However, due to the huge amount of discharged water and its long length, Niagara Falls is considered the most powerful in North America.

(Victoria Falls)

Waterfall Victoria, named after the Queen of Great Britain, was known to the local tribes as "Thundering Smoke", which is certainly more in line with the impression it produces. The waterfall is 1800 m wide and 128 m high.

Highest waterfall

(Angel Falls)

The highest waterfall in the world is Angellocated on the Churun \u200b\u200bRiver in beautiful Venezuela. The total height of Angel is 1054 m, the height of the free fall of water is 979 m. In the language of local residents, its name is translated as "Waterfall of the Deepest Place".

Angel was discovered in 1935 by Juan Angel, a Venezuelan pilot who first flew over the waterfall, after which it got its name.