It is interesting, and in fact on the planet only a few hundred of these natural eternal flames.What nature creates conditions that the fire is not extinguished? Try to understand. Scientists from the University of Indiana found out that rocks under the Chestnut Ridge area of the park in the state of New York, do not have sufficient temperature required for the development of gas supply natural eternal flame. This means that some other mechanism produces gas, but what kind of experts do not yet know. eternal flame is directly under the waterfall, it is believed that it lit the Native Americans thousands of years ago. Such natural eternal flames on the planet only a few hundred scientists previously believed that they did not die out because of the flow of natural gas produced by rocks. However, the study's author Arndt Shimmelmann came to the conclusion that the temperature of the rocks under the so-called "Waterfall eternal fire" is not greater than the temperature of tea in a cup. In addition, mining shale there are not that old as previously thought. These two factors indicate that the origin of the gas other than previously thought, the mechanism of its occurrence is not yet known. Schimmelmann said: "We believe that there is another way of gas generation in the area, probably such an unusual way exists somewhere else. If this is the case, and the gas is produced in a similar way in other places, we have a lot more shale gas resources than we previously thought, "it quoted LiveScience. Natural eternal fires, such as in a nature reserve in the state of New York, is a rare phenomenon. Most soil gas is released, which absorbs bacteria and converts the methane to carbon dioxide. Gas that dissipates quickly, can not provide flame retardant. In the case of New York gas leaks from natural rock chamber with a hole. It does not allow the gas to be converted, not to dissipate and be a kind of fuel for the fire. It is interesting to note that the gas leak is the highest in the world (of all studied similar leaks) the concentration of ethane and propane. Typically, the gas temperature varies in the boiling point of water, such temperature can cleave the molecule carbon schists resulting reaction produces natural gas. Schimmelmann and his colleague Maria Mastalerz made this discovery is in the process of counting the amount of methane that is released land along the east coast of America. In addition, they have carefully studied the "burning a hole" in the Pennsylvanian Park Cook Forest State Park, although it is not unique, as there is an eternal flame fed by old gas wells. The results of their study, the researchers published in the journal Marine and Petroleum Geology.