Hayli Gubbi volcano, right before its eruption. That odd colored green lake is... suspicious. 🤨
Hayli Gubbi volcano, right before its eruption. That odd colored green lake is... suspicious. 🤨
Oooh... "hypersaline" lake
Oooh, hypersaline KILLER lake.
"He said that this lake often changes its shape and place, which he expressed in these terms: the lake moves. Often, he added, on going to a place which the evening before was quite solid, you suddenly break through, and disappear in the abyss. But what is more frightful is the overflow of the waters: sometimes the lake rises like a mountain, and falls again into the plain like a deluge; entire caravans, men and beasts are engulphed. There are, however, precursory signs, of which mounted men only can take advantage, by flying at the utmost speed of the animals; occasionally some of them have thus escaped, and it is from them these terrible details are procured...."
Oooh, not only is it a killer lake, humans attempted to mine it for salt, but now the salt is contaminated with sulfuric acid.
"...More recently, the Ethiopian Mineral Resources Development Enterprise has established the existence of 290 million tons of salt at Lake Afrera alone. Some local companies used to produce salt from the lake by pumping the brine into artificial ponds for evaporation and subsequent precipitation.
Following the 2011 eruption of Nabro, the lake is contaminated with sulfuric acid, making the salt inedible...."