Indonesia, the
country with the most exotic landscape, has a variable topography, although
coastal lowlands seem dominant. Interior mountains are of a volcanic nature.
The country is well known for some of the fiercest volcanic eruptions in the
entire region.
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The
Krakatau Volcano between Sumatra and Java
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In addition to that, several crater lakes have
their own share of that typography. They are well-known for the massive amount
of sulfur they contain. This massive amount of sulfur has given the landscape
its uniqueness and peculiarity in regard to coffee plantations. The landscape is also shaped due to the
effect of tropical hot-and-humid climate as well as the wet season, triggered
by monsoons, that lasts from December to March.
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The
Ijen Plateau
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Rainy
Season in Indonesia
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Indonesia's Landscape 10,
000 Years from Now
The landscape
would be covered with more volcanic mountains. The Sunda Straight would witness
the emergence of new volcanic eruptions, which would shape its topography. Indonesia
is witnessing more volcanic eruptions; some of which awoke after they had been
dormant tens of years, just like the Krakatau Volcano. It is obvious that each
eruption of this volcano becomes worse and fiercer than its precedent. After it
had been in a long slumber for tens of years, this volcano erupted fiercely in
1883 causing more than 36000 deaths; it was
equivalent to 200 megatons of TNT. The volcano went back to its dormancy, but
it has awoken again. The Tambora Volcano has also become so active after being
in a slumber for a long time. When it erupts, it empties around 150 cubic km of
magma.
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Mount
Tambora Caused by Volcanic Eruptions
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Indonesia's Landscape 1,000,000
Years from Now
The whole
country would have been wiped out by a tsunami caused by a massive earthquake
generated at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Indonesia's
history demonstrates that the landscape has been prone to disastrous
earthquakes that have struck the coastal regions of the Aceh many times. Each
tsunami is worse than its precedent. So, disastrous and terminating tsunamis would
take very heavy damage on the entire country starting with North
Sumatra and extending south. Other tsunamis would strike the west
coast of Aceh, and it would take heavy damage extending as far south as
Tapaktuan. In fact, based on the long history of tsunamis in the entire region,
the whole Southeast Asia as well as Oceania
would be devastated by the expected tsunami. The whole area might turn into a
part of the Indian Ocean.
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October
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Indonesia's Landscape
100,000,000 Years from Now
Due to the
effect of monsoons and the wet season that the area witnesses from December
through March and due to the submerged land with water, volcanic eruptions
would begin active again deep at the bottom of the ocean. These volcanic
eruptions would spread every where due to the upheaval and the topographic
turbulence that is deep-rooted and that goes back to millions of years, as it
is the case now. The whole region would be black volcanic mountains floating in
the Indian Ocean. The whole region would not
be recognizable anymore.
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When we trace
back the typographical history of Indonesia, we will not fail to form
an image of what the entire region would look like thousands or even millions
of years from now. The area has been known for its massive volcanic eruptions,
its disastrous tsunamis, and its wet flooding seasons. When these three
elements meet, they change the typography of the region drastically, which what
would happen to Indonesia's
landscape few millions years later.
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