Tinted detail of a photo: Broad grey gravel outwash plain crossed by shallow braided channels of muddy water, with two glacier tongues flowing between dark mountains under a cloudy sky.
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When Mud Flows Behave Like Glaciers: Discovering the Secrets of Azerbaijan’s Mud Volcanoes

When Mud Flows Behave Like Glaciers: Discovering the Secrets of Azerbaijan’s Mud Volcanoes

Introduction When people hear the word „volcano“, they usually think of a magmatic volcano with impressive pyroclastic eruptions or lava flows. However, mud volcanoes are different. Mud volcanoes erupt what we call mud breccias, a mixture of gas, water, and fine sediments. The eruptions generally occur due to deep generation of hydrocarbons and gravitational instability …[Read More]