Wondrous Waterfalls

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Wondrous Waterfalls

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The waterfall. In concept, it’s simple: just water… falling. But in life, waterfalls are a wonder. Beautiful, frightening, powerful, calming, deafening, soothing—sometimes all at once. They’ve been inspiring humans for millennia. When water flows over a wide shelf, it’s called a block falls. The widest is Victoria Falls in Zambia, over one mile across. Called “smoke that thunders” in the local language, it can be heard 25 miles away. Human tools have been found there from 50,000 years ago. The tallest falls are in Venezuela. Angel Falls cascade down the face of a half-mile-high rock shelf in a horsetail plume that falls so far, the water turns to mist before it can reach the ground. There, the river reforms to continue its path. Yosemite Falls in California is 200 feet shorter but nearly as spectacular. But by far, the biggest waterfall in the world is “out of sight”: Water falling into water under more than half a mile of ocean. Off the coast of Greenland, a huge torrent of dense, very cold water surges over a shelf into the warmer North Atlantic, plummeting 11,000 feet. Its flow is 30 times that of all the rivers that flow into the Atlantic, an astonishing 1.3 trillion gallons per second! Next time you get out into nature, make it a point to take in a waterfall.

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