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A video circulating online shows how recent heavy rains have turned the island’s landscape blood red.
hormuz island Off the coast of Iran in the Persian Gulf, a dramatic video show turned a deep red after heavy rains gave the Middle Eastern island’s aptly named Red Beach its name.
It is said that rainwater got mixed in. mineral rich deposits The blood-red scenery created by the seawater and seawater stands out vividly.
Hormuz Island was dyed red due to heavy rain on December 16th, and this is said to be due to the soil containing a lot of iron oxide. report.
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Heavy rains on Hormuz Island washed iron oxide soil into coastal waters, causing a blood-red runoff that was captured in shocking footage that went viral online. (Instagram user @mohsen_fitsaz)
In a clip shared by Instagramheavy rain is seen mixing with the deep-colored earth, bringing crimson sediment downhill and into the sea.
Research shows that Hormuz Island is mostly made up of red clay and salt rock. science directSo the researchers investigated the heavy metal content in the soil in the area.
“The red soil color comes from a mixture of hematite and iron hydroxide, but the amount of hematite is greater than the iron hydroxide,” the magazine writes.
Hormuz Island is a small strategic point in the Strait of Hormuz off the southern coast of Iran, and is also home to several thousand people.
It is also known locally as “Rainbow Island” because of its colorful soil and rock formations.
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Scientists explain the natural phenomenon behind a video of viral red rain from Iran’s ‘Rainbow Island’, where hematite-rich soil produces deep red water. (Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
Reports of Red Rain have sparked comparisons with “rain of blood” in ancient texts, but scientists say it’s all completely natural.
“The island is a salt dome, a teardrop-shaped mountain of halite, gypsum, anhydrite, and other evaporates that rises upward through the overlying rock layer,” the researchers said. NASA Earth Observatory He explained.
“Halite and halite are weakly buoyant, so under high pressure they lose their brittleness and flow like a liquid,” the researchers added.
This striking color is said to come from the iron oxide-rich soil, locally known as ‘gorak’, which covers much of Hormuz’s land surface.
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Scientists have described a natural phenomenon on Hormuz Island, known as the “Rainbow Island” because of its colorful rock formations. (Hiroon/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
When heavy rains hit the island’s hills and cliffs, the water mixes with this mineral-rich earth, carrying fine red particles into the island. stream, river And finally to the Persian Gulf.
as iron oxide When floating in water, it absorbs light of shorter wavelengths, reflects longer red wavelengthsIt gives runoff and coastal waters a deep red color.
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Researchers also said that the “blood rain” phenomenon occurs in the following cases: rain or runoff Contains dust, mineral-rich soil, or algae.
