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A Mud Volcano From the Ice Age Has Just Been Discovered—And It’s More Active Than We Thought

In a fascinating find beneath the waves of the Barents Sea, researchers have discovered anunderwater mud volcano dating back to the end of the last Ice Age. Located approximately 70 miles south of ...
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The mud volcano capital of the world

(CNN) — Stretching to the horizon, the gray-white earth rises in peaks like a well-whipped meringue petrified into mud and rock. A keen wind whips these otherworldly hills, while the land underfoot is ...
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This mud volcano has been erupting for more than a decade — and scientists are still puzzled about the cause

The world’s most destructive mud volcano was born near the town of Sidoarjo, on the island of Java, Indonesia, just over 11 years ago – and to this day it has not stopped erupting. The mud volcano ...
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Scientists Discover Mysterious Signs of Life in Bizarre Blue Volcanic Goo

Archaeologists have unearthed numerous Viking burials sites and extensive treasure which date back to the Iron Age, Ancient ...
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More likely mud than magma, Sitka’s newest volcano is rising from the depths

Jacyn Schmidt and her fishing partner captured this image of a mud volcano on their depth sounder, just a few miles north of Sitka. (Photo by Jacyn Schmidt) A couple of Sitka residents who were ...
Business Insider

Subterranean tunnels are causing Indonesia’s deadly mud volcano

Following is a transcript of the video. Scientists recently published a paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth about the historic Lusi mud volcano. Following is a transcript of the ...
CNET

'The ocean is on fire again': Mud volcano explodes, lighting up the Caspian Sea

An eruption south of the Azeri capital sent fire streaming into the night sky on Sunday. A mud volcano has been pinned as the culprit. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple ...
Science Daily

Indonesian mud volcano likely human-caused, study suggests

New research hopes to close the debate on whether a major mud volcano disaster in Indonesia was triggered by an earthquake or had human-made origins. New research led by the University of Adelaide ...
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Caspian Sea explosion likely caused by mud volcano

A mud volcano has caused an explosion in the Caspian Sea offshore Azerbaijan, close to state-controlled Socar's extensive oil and gas fields’ infrastructure. The cause of the blast, which saw a column ...
Mongabay

Indonesian tycoon bears responsibility for devastating mud volcano, contends new research

A mud volcano responsible for displacing more than 40,000 people in Indonesia’s East Java province was caused by an oil and gas company owned by one of the country’s richest tycoons, and not by an ...
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Earthquake not to blame for Indonesian mud volcano

New research led by the University of Adelaide hopes to close the debate on whether a major mud volcano disaster in Indonesia was triggered by an earthquake or had man-made origins. A mud volcano ...