Plitvice Lakes waterfall
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The Plitvice Lakes is a National park in the mountainous region of Lika.
Once upon a time...there was a river in the Karst Valley.
It's clean and transparent waters offered life to many of the valley's inhabitants, both plants & animals. Some of them decided to thank the river by making it even more beautiful.
The rain collected carbon dioxide when passing through the ground and thus created ions of carbonic acid, which dissolved the underground rocks. Water was enriched with dissolved calcium carbonate, microscopic algae, and bacteria came to live on the surface of the moss. Their mucus caught the crystals of calcite from the water. From the calcite sediment and fossilized algae and moss, the porous stone known as travertine is formed. The large travertine barriers were, thus, formed which slowed down the river & remodeled the river valley, and these majestic lakes were born.
Even today, on top of the barriers over which the waterfalls come down, in the water that never stops flowing, live little travertine makers, the moss & algae. Every day they continue to create this phenomenon, which made their river beautiful and famous throughout the world.
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