Mud Volcanoes

Mud volcanoes spout mud instead of lava

Together with the mud methane comes to the surface. Sometimes it self-ignites.

Rising methane sets the mud to bubbling

The mud is rather fluid and the resulting cones are, therefore flat and spreading.

The mud rises out of depth of up to several kilometeres under the surface.

With acoustic and seismic methods researchers study the mud volcano structures at and beneath the sea floor and on land.

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