Tuesday, December 2, 2014


 
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.


The Krakatau Volcano between Sumatra and Java


 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.
  

The Ijen Plateau


Rainy Season in Indonesia




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.
 


Mount Tambora Caused by Volcanic Eruptions



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.


October 2010 Sumatra earthquake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2010_Sumatra_earthquake_and_tsunami



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.
  





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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