Liquid fire and solid water are fascinating enough as they are, but they can take shapes you probably haven’t seen before.
Lava is beautiful and terrifying, and every form of it is more dangerous than the last. Pillow lava emerges out of the ocean in giant round ribbons, carbonatite lava forms structures that look dark and demonic. Some lava even dries as razor-sharp strands that look like hair. Ice may be even weirder in what it can twist into. There are beautiful fields of ice blooms, forest floors scattered with hair ice, and miles of mountains covered in sharp frozen pillars.
Check out the two most extreme forms of the elements showing off how insane they can look.
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Lava that emerges out of underwater volcano hotspots.
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Blocky flows are common if the silica content of lavas is higher
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A smooth and continuous lava crust. Pahoehoe forms when the effusion rate is low and consequently the velocity of lava flow is slow
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Thin glass fibers that form when gas bubbles within lava burst at the lava's surface.
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Magma can turn blue as a result of burning sulfur gases in the atmosphere.
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Found in Tanzania’s “Mountain of God”
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Ice that forms in high-altitude when the sun rays turn snow directly into water vapor without melting it first.
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Tourist in a field of Penitentes in the Andes.
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Blooms of ice that form on dead plant-life.
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Ice that appears once moisture on soil reaches freezing temperatures.
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Fresh water lake ice that breaks through to the surface.
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Also known as wool ice. It forms on dead wood.
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Bubbles under the surface of Canada’s Abraham Lake
