A video taken in a popular holidaymaker hot spot on an Persian island shows rainfall menstruate down a cliff , turn the beach and ocean below parentage red .
The video , which has amassed over 1 million likeson Instagram , shows a beach on Hormuz Island , Iran , mention Red Beach for fair obvious reasons . The telecasting , post by a duty tour guidebook on the island , shows tourer watching as blood - red pee pour out down the cliff facial expression .
So , why is the sea turning red ? Have we angered the gods ? Probably , but that is n’t the cause . While some outlets have suggested that the phenomenon is " ancestry pelting " , that is n’t it either .
Hormuz Island is bed as " rainbow island " for its colourful soil and mineral deposits .
" The island is a salt dome — a teardrop - shaped mound of careen salt , gypsum , anhydrite , and other evaporites that has mount upward through overlie layer of rock . rock and roll salt , or halite , is fallible and buoyant , so it lose its brittleness and flows more like a liquid when under high press , " NASA ’s Earth Observatoryexplains .
" The rising mass is not strictly made of salt . plant within it are layers of remains , carbonates , shale , and iron - rich volcanic rocks , some of which have taken on intense subtlety of cherry , icteric , and orangish as they move up and interact with water and minerals from other rock layers . "
The crimson colour is the result of the red-faced soil interact with the water .
" Hormuz Island is mostly formed of crimson soil and salt rock . The red stain originates its color from a mixture of haematite and iron hydrated oxide but the amount of hematite dominates over iron hydroxides , " a 2023studyinto expectant metallic element content in the soil explicate .
This grime is mined , for use in paints , cosmetic , as well as for the facades of building . But when it rain , it makes an impressive scarlet colouration , bringing holidaymaker to the island to witness it .
While you might not look at it and suppose " yum " , the land is used in food for thought too , though it ’s not recommend due to its backbreaking alloy content .
" The blood-red land has been found in the food of natives of Hormuz Island . The native people of this neighborhood of Iran call this soil ' Gelak ' and use it as a spice . They sour the red grunge into a sauce and expend it in a variety of intellectual nourishment , " concord to the 2023 paper evaluating the risk of consuming the heavy metal - contain soil . " Red dirt also has a special place in the preparation of local bread of Hormuz . This bread , which is call ' tomshi ' , is consumed with other foods . "
