Waterfalls Gallery

Water cascading over naturally formed tufa dam

Water cascading over naturally formed tufa dam. Tufa is a kind of limestone, formed from the precipitation of carbonate minerals which builds up around mosses and water plants to form a solid limestone structure over time. Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia. November

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Series of waterfalls known as Sastavci that cascade between mountain lakes

Series of waterfalls known as Sastavci that cascade between mountain lakes, Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia. January 2015

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Lower Yellowstone Falls, Yellowstone river

Lower Yellowstone Falls, Yellowstone river. These 33 meter high falls are the largest volume falls in the Rocky Mountains of the USA. The yellow rock around the river is a thermally degraded (hydrothermally altered) rhyolite. The trees are lodgepole pines. At the right time of day the sunlight creates a rainbow in the spray

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