The largest salt mountain in the world
This giant salt mountain is located in the small town of Hellingen, Germany, and is the largest salt mountain to date, with a height of about 530 and a total area of about 98 hectares. It looks snowy white from a distance, just like a cold snow mountain. When you are still wondering why there is a snow mountain here, it is only when you get closer that you realize that this snow mountain is a salt mountain with grains of salt piled up. And according to experts, the weight of the whole salt mountain is about 300 million tons, so where did the 300 million tons of salt come from in the end?
In fact, a long time ago, it was only the lowest point of the "inner sea". But with the change of time, the geology has also changed a lot. Slowly, this place became rich in potash. When people found potash mines here, they mined potash and the rest was salt.
Although the salt mining has promoted the development of the local economy, but it is not a "meat and potatoes" in the eyes of the locals, on the contrary, the locals hate it and want it to disappear as soon as possible, so what is the reason why they hate this salt mountain so much?
Because this salt mountain is open-air existence, once the rainy days, salt mountain above the salt will roll down with the rain and penetrate into the land, I think we all know that the land is salinized will become no nutritional value, only some highly salt-tolerant plants can survive on it, so the surrounding land was polluted to a large extent, and the place of water resources salt content is already high, and now is a serious excess, resulting in underground water simply can not drink.
Such a treasure area should have been happy, but the local residents do not feel this way, but instead because tourists come here to take away a packet of salt, which makes the local residents very worried about this salt mountain will be destroyed by people, but also because of the existence of the salt mountain, the local environment is also very damaged, which makes the residents very contradictory.
On the earth where we live, 70% of it is covered by sea water, so the ocean can provide us with a constant supply of salt. There are many scenic spots in the world that are famous for their salt, such as the famous Dead Sea, where the water contains so much salt that it allows people to float on the surface. In order to protect the ecological environment of this place, in addition to the development of tourism to increase revenue, so now there is a "Salt Mountain Museum", visitors can climb the world's largest salt mountain to visit, and visitors must also take away more than one kilogram of salt.
