The soda and salt causes the creatures to calcify, perfectly preserved, as they dry. The water has an extremely high soda and salt content, so high that it would strip the ink off my Kodak film boxes within a few seconds. No-one knows for certain exactly how they die, but it appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lake’s surface confuses them, and like birds crashing into plate glass windows, they crash into the lake. I unexpectedly found the creatures - all manner of birds and bats - washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania.
Photographed by Nick Brandt in his new book, Across the Ravaged Land, petrified creatures pepper the area around the lake due to its constant pH of 9 to 10.5 - an extremely basic alkalinity that preserves these creatures for eternity. The rare phenomenon is caused by the chemical makeup of the lake, but the petrified creatures it leaves behind are straight out of a horror film. There’s a deceptively still body of water in Tanzania with a deadly secret - it turns any animal it touches to stone. The petrified creatures it leaves behind seem straight out of a horror film. My brothers n sisters if u know what times d bible says things like dis shall happen abeg click the "LIKE" hand side The creatures pepper the area around the lake due to its constant pH of 9 to 10.5 - an extremely basic alkalinity that preserves these creatures for eternity. The rare phenomenon is caused by the chemical makeup of the lake. Reanimated, alive again in death.There’s a deceptively still body of water in Tanzania with a deadly secret… I took these creatures as I found them on the shoreline, and then placed them in ‘living’ positions, bringing them back to ‘life’, as it were. Nick Brandt wrote in his blog about this- I unexpectedly found the creatures – all manner of birds and bats – washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania. Birds and other animals that come in contact with the lake’s waters – often by mistake – die and get mummified into stones.
And for this reason it burns the skin upon contact and gradually turn the animals into solid state. Actually the PH level of the water of the lake is extremely higher (about 10.5). It's absolutely amazing that there is a lake in Tanzania where animals turn into stone.
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