Monday, August 7, 2017

Sand river

Recently I got a video of sand river in Iraq. But looking at the video, it didn't seem like sand flowing as I imagined by hearing the name " sand river ". I thought the pebbles looked more like  hail stones which happen during hailstorm in our area.


I was right! We know that Iraq is the country which hardly receive any rain. But due to global warming , last year there was a flood . In this case, there was a significant amount of hail stones which is also a frozen ice in the upstream side.


The illusion of sand river took place when these hail stones started flowing downstream side. It is not made of sand but made of hail stones which is nothing than frozen ice.

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