It has been burning for 6000 years. Yes, you read that correctly, 6000. And maybe longer. It is located around Natural deposit of charcoalat a depth of 30 meters in the bowels Wengen MountainIt is located only 200 kilometers from the Australian city of Sydney and now extends, also underground, for nearly 7 square kilometres. Combustion progresses by one meter each year.
The discovery has already been confirmed Guillermo Renthe professor at Imperial College London, who claims that internal temperatures approach a thousand degrees and that the combustion field today would have a diameter of at least 10 meters, suggesting that the fire has been going on for more than 6000 years than he would if he had known.
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Regardless of the hypothesis that there is an underground volcano, scientists who study this phenomenon are now convinced that it is indeed natural coal storage Which, for unknown reasons, started It has been in spontaneous combustion for thousands of years. Residents of the area, which is located in one of the parks of Australia, assure that there has been news of this burning for a very long time, as evidenced by the leakage of smoke that sometimes occurs from cracks in the ground. . After all, the area is known as “Fire Mountain”, in the local Wingen dialect. According to experts, this fire may be the oldest still running on the planet. But more than just a real fire, the combustion that occurred for thousands of years under the fiery mountain, looks more like Fire from cinder feeding through layers of coal.
However, Mount Wenjen is not the only one on Earth. There are others, and some too Caused by a man’s hand involuntarily. This type of fire produces true combustion rivers that follow the path of natural coal deposits. On the surface they just stand out Smoke and ash rising from cracks in the ground. However, the surrounding land is white and has a higher temperature than that of other similar areas that are not affected by underground fires, and the surrounding rocks have a yellowish color, which is typical for the presence of sulfur.
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Moreover, it is possible to follow the path of the fire because there are usually no vegetation on the roof. Only 20 or 30 years after the fire has passed, does plant life automatically resume. in places Where the fires broke out 20 or 30 years ago, the ‘forest is back’But in a different way, as the fire “shaped the landscape,” explained Ryan who added, “It’s not only 6,000 years old, but ‘at least’ 6,000 years old. In fact, it could be hundreds of thousands of years old.”
Other phenomena Underground combustion identified in United State (Centralia since 1962). But in this case, the fire was caused by a number of illegal landfills which, for various reasons, led to the burning that spread in the presence of natural anthracite deposits. and the ChinaHowever, to contain the greatest number of phenomena of natural combustion underground, all due to the presence of coal.
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