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The 3 mile loop to Mystic Falls and Biscuit Basin Overlook encounters varied river, forest and plateau scenery, and has a moderate elevation change of 550 feet. The falls are a spectacular cascade formed at a steep, narrow place in the canyon of the Little Firehole River, while the overlook has a fine view not only of the basin but also of several miles of the Firehole River valley, with Upper Geyser Basin in the distance. The loop hike is best done in the clockwise direction, visiting the falls first, since the elevation gain (up the river canyon) is more gentle, and the overlook appears suddenly and dramatically, rather than approaching gradually during the steep climb from the flat lands below.
The name of Yellowstone National Park's "Mud Volcano" feature and the surrounding area is misleading; it consists of hot springs, mud pots and fumaroles, rather than a true mud volcano. Depending upon the precise definition of the term mud volcano, the Yellowstone formation could be considered a hydrothermal mud volcano cluster. The feature is much less active than in its first recorded description, although the area is quite dynamic. Yellowstone is an active geothermal area with a magma chamber near the surface, and active gases are chiefly steam, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide. However, there are some Mud Volcanoes and Mud Geysers elsewhere in Yellowstone. One, the "Vertically Gifted Cyclic Mud Pot" sometimes acts as a geyser, throwing mud up to 30 feet high.
Yellowstone National Park
The name of Yellowstone National Park's "Mud Volcano" feature and the surrounding area is misleading; it consists of hot springs, mud pots and fumaroles, rather than a true mud volcano. Depending upon the precise definition of the term mud volcano, the Yellowstone formation could be considered a hydrothermal mud volcano cluster. The feature is much less active than in its first recorded description, although the area is quite dynamic. Yellowstone is an active geothermal area with a magma chamber near the surface, and active gases are chiefly steam, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide. However, there are some Mud Volcanoes and Mud Geysers elsewhere in Yellowstone. One, the "Vertically Gifted Cyclic Mud Pot" sometimes acts as a geyser, throwing mud up to 30 feet high.
Yellowstone National Park
Qobustan, Azerbaijan, Young azeri boy squatting beside a flare of mud, his hand in the cold mud, a man standing behind him; other small mud volcano craters in the background
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The name of Yellowstone National Park's "Mud Volcano" feature and the surrounding area is misleading; it consists of hot springs, mud pots and fumaroles, rather than a true mud volcano. Depending upon the precise definition of the term mud volcano, the Yellowstone formation could be considered a hydrothermal mud volcano cluster. The feature is much less active than in its first recorded description, although the area is quite dynamic. Yellowstone is an active geothermal area with a magma chamber near the surface, and active gases are chiefly steam, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide. However, there are some Mud Volcanoes and Mud Geysers elsewhere in Yellowstone. One, the "Vertically Gifted Cyclic Mud Pot" sometimes acts as a geyser, throwing mud up to 30 feet high.
The name of Yellowstone National Park's "Mud Volcano" feature and the surrounding area is misleading; it consists of hot springs, mud pots and fumaroles, rather than a true mud volcano. Depending upon the precise definition of the term mud volcano, the Yellowstone formation could be considered a hydrothermal mud volcano cluster. The feature is much less active than in its first recorded description, although the area is quite dynamic. Yellowstone is an active geothermal area with a magma chamber near the surface, and active gases are chiefly steam, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide. However, there are some Mud Volcanoes and Mud Geysers elsewhere in Yellowstone. One, the "Vertically Gifted Cyclic Mud Pot" sometimes acts as a geyser, throwing mud up to 30 feet high.
Yellowstone National Park
The name of Yellowstone National Park's "Mud Volcano" feature and the surrounding area is misleading; it consists of hot springs, mud pots and fumaroles, rather than a true mud volcano. Depending upon the precise definition of the term mud volcano, the Yellowstone formation could be considered a hydrothermal mud volcano cluster. The feature is much less active than in its first recorded description, although the area is quite dynamic. Yellowstone is an active geothermal area with a magma chamber near the surface, and active gases are chiefly steam, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide. However, there are some Mud Volcanoes and Mud Geysers elsewhere in Yellowstone. One, the "Vertically Gifted Cyclic Mud Pot" sometimes acts as a geyser, throwing mud up to 30 feet high.
Yellowstone National Park
The name of Yellowstone National Park's "Mud Volcano" feature and the surrounding area is misleading; it consists of hot springs, mud pots and fumaroles, rather than a true mud volcano. Depending upon the precise definition of the term mud volcano, the Yellowstone formation could be considered a hydrothermal mud volcano cluster. The feature is much less active than in its first recorded description, although the area is quite dynamic. Yellowstone is an active geothermal area with a magma chamber near the surface, and active gases are chiefly steam, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide. However, there are some Mud Volcanoes and Mud Geysers elsewhere in Yellowstone. One, the "Vertically Gifted Cyclic Mud Pot" sometimes acts as a geyser, throwing mud up to 30 feet high.
Yellowstone National Park
A huge and violent mud volcano that was most spectacular in 1980. Three foot bubbles exploding and sending enormous chunks of mud in all directions. It was like a volcano without the orange glow.It was a risky proposition to get the photos because if the mud hit you it would stick to your skin and burn you severely.Located in the woods behind the main activity at Mud Volcano, Yellowstone Park.
Hot springs are sites where groundwater emerges at the Earth’s surface (or on the seafloor). Hot spring water has to be higher in temperature than the human body (an admittedly arbitrary definition): over 98° Fahrenheit or over 37° Celsius. Geysers are hot springs that episodically erupt columns of water. The highest concentration of geysers and hot springs anywhere is at the Yellowstone Hotspot Volcano in northwestern Wyoming, USA.
Mud Volcano is the namesake of Yellowstone’s Mud Volcano Group, on the western side of the Yellowstone River, north of Yellowstone Lake. Historical evidence indicates that, in the 1800s, Mud Volcano was a cinder cone volcano-shaped feature that had impressive mud eruptions. A hydrothermal explosion apparently destroyed much of the cone. What remains is a 7 meter-diameter, subcircular hot spring pool bordered by a high wall on its southern, southwestern, and western sides. Well-developed mudcracks are present along the northern and northeastern edges of the pool. The mud formed by chemical decomposition of rhyolitic volcanic tuffs. Rising volcanic hydrogen sulfide gas (H2S) oxidized above the water table and became sulfuric acid (H2SO4). Published research has shown that microbes also produce sulfuric acid in the Mud Volcano area, by oxidizing elemental sulfur (S). Sulfuric acid is a strong acid and readily altered the rhyolitic rocks, resulting in clay minerals, which became mud when mixed with water. Dark gray wisps in the muddy water represent fine-grained iron sulfide (pyrite). Two energetic vents are present at Mud Volcano - their activity is undercutting the adjacent high wall. In 1998, researchers measured the water here at 187° Fahrenheit (= 86° Celsius), with a pH of 3 (= acidic).
(near) Niland, California, 2010
A day out at the Salton Sea with Kim.
It took a bit of looking, but we eventually found a field of these mud volcanoes (and mud pots) near the towns of Niland and Calipatria. Each mud pot and mound had its own "personality" -- varying shapes, sizes, textures, and noises.
Salton Sea set.
The crater of Toragay Mud volcano. Toragay is one of the world’s largest mud volcanoes, being 400 meters high and its crater measures 150 meters in diameter. The volcano is in the Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve. It has remained dormant in recent years and is currently not showing any signs of activity. In the past it has erupted 6 times from 1841 to 1950. Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve is to the west of the settlement of Gobustan, approximately 64 km (40 miles) southwest of Baku.
The first of two exposed mud volcano of Triassic-Jurassic age (Lias, 200 to 180 ma) near Watchet. It is quite rare that it is still very well preserved since it is at the coast below the flood line (wave action).
Hot springs are sites where groundwater emerges at the Earth’s surface (or on the seafloor). Hot spring water has to be higher in temperature than the human body (an admittedly arbitrary definition): over 98° Fahrenheit or over 37° Celsius. Geysers are hot springs that episodically erupt columns of water. The highest concentration of geysers and hot springs anywhere is at the Yellowstone Hotspot Volcano in northwestern Wyoming, USA.
Mud Volcano is the namesake of Yellowstone’s Mud Volcano Group, on the western side of the Yellowstone River, north of Yellowstone Lake. Historical evidence indicates that, in the 1800s, Mud Volcano was a cinder cone volcano-shaped feature that had impressive mud eruptions. A hydrothermal explosion apparently destroyed much of the cone. What remains is a 7 meter-diameter, subcircular hot spring pool bordered by a high wall on its southern, southwestern, and western sides. Well-developed mudcracks are present along the northern and northeastern edges of the pool. The mud formed by chemical decomposition of rhyolitic volcanic tuffs. Rising volcanic hydrogen sulfide gas (H2S) oxidized above the water table and became sulfuric acid (H2SO4). Published research has shown that microbes also produce sulfuric acid in the Mud Volcano area, by oxidizing elemental sulfur (S). Sulfuric acid is a strong acid and readily altered the rhyolitic rocks, resulting in clay minerals, which became mud when mixed with water. Dark gray wisps in the muddy water represent fine-grained iron sulfide (pyrite). Two energetic vents are present at Mud Volcano - their activity is undercutting the adjacent high wall. In 1998, researchers measured the water here at 187° Fahrenheit (= 86° Celsius), with a pH of 3 (= acidic).
A minature mudvolcano and accompaning minature mud flow is part of what my family refers to as "The Mud Fairies' Minature Mud Volcanoes" which are located on the north end of the Microcasm Basin in the Pocket Basin Mud Pots in the Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park; Wyoming. The cone is built by mudflows and splatter forced out of the central vent by gas bubbles. The flows on this cone are not fresh and dessication cracks are starting to form.Multiple flows can be seen in the photo.
The name of Yellowstone National Park's "Mud Volcano" feature and the surrounding area is misleading; it consists of hot springs, mud pots and fumaroles, rather than a true mud volcano. Depending upon the precise definition of the term mud volcano, the Yellowstone formation could be considered a hydrothermal mud volcano cluster. The feature is much less active than in its first recorded description, although the area is quite dynamic. Yellowstone is an active geothermal area with a magma chamber near the surface, and active gases are chiefly steam, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide. However, there are some Mud Volcanoes and Mud Geysers elsewhere in Yellowstone. One, the "Vertically Gifted Cyclic Mud Pot" sometimes acts as a geyser, throwing mud up to 30 feet high.
Yellowstone National Park
Hot springs are sites where groundwater emerges at the Earth’s surface (or on the seafloor). Hot spring water has to be higher in temperature than the human body (an admittedly arbitrary definition): over 98° Fahrenheit or over 37° Celsius. Geysers are hot springs that episodically erupt columns of water. The highest concentration of geysers and hot springs anywhere is at the Yellowstone Hotspot Volcano in northwestern Wyoming, USA.
Mud Volcano is the namesake of Yellowstone’s Mud Volcano Group, on the western side of the Yellowstone River, north of Yellowstone Lake. Historical evidence indicates that, in the 1800s, Mud Volcano was a cinder cone volcano-shaped feature that had impressive mud eruptions. A hydrothermal explosion apparently destroyed much of the cone. What remains is a 7 meter-diameter, subcircular hot spring pool bordered by a high wall on its southern, southwestern, and western sides. Well-developed mudcracks are present along the northern and northeastern edges of the pool. The mud formed by chemical decomposition of rhyolitic volcanic tuffs. Rising volcanic hydrogen sulfide gas (H2S) oxidized above the water table and became sulfuric acid (H2SO4). Published research has shown that microbes also produce sulfuric acid in the Mud Volcano area, by oxidizing elemental sulfur (S). Sulfuric acid is a strong acid and readily altered the rhyolitic rocks, resulting in clay minerals, which became mud when mixed with water. Dark gray wisps in the muddy water represent fine-grained iron sulfide (pyrite). Two energetic vents are present at Mud Volcano - their activity is undercutting the adjacent high wall. In 1998, researchers measured the water here at 187° Fahrenheit (= 86° Celsius), with a pH of 3 (= acidic).
The name of Yellowstone National Park's "Mud Volcano" feature and the surrounding area is misleading; it consists of hot springs, mud pots and fumaroles, rather than a true mud volcano. Depending upon the precise definition of the term mud volcano, the Yellowstone formation could be considered a hydrothermal mud volcano cluster. The feature is much less active than in its first recorded description, although the area is quite dynamic. Yellowstone is an active geothermal area with a magma chamber near the surface, and active gases are chiefly steam, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide. However, there are some Mud Volcanoes and Mud Geysers elsewhere in Yellowstone. One, the "Vertically Gifted Cyclic Mud Pot" sometimes acts as a geyser, throwing mud up to 30 feet high.
In the Mud Volcano area of Yellowstone National Park. Sour Lake is in the background. Violet is having a tough time with the smell.
Video- Another bubbling mud volcano- the mud has cosmetic properties. You can see tourists from the other group milling about around the volcano. This is near Gobustan in Azerbaijan. Detailed notes about mud volcanoes as well as more pictures appeared earlier in this album.(a couple of more pictures also appear after this). Note to my Facebook viewers: This video had uploaded correctly onto Facebook but for some strange reason seems to have disappeared. So this video is only available on Flickr). (Gobustan, Azerbaijan, Sept. 2017)
Experience peace and solitude at Andaman Islands – A place for sea or beach lovers, and even if you do not love them, you will surely start loving them after you spend a week in Andaman Islands. Color of the sea, texture of the beaches, exquisite sunrise and sunsets, unforgettable journey – all these things sum up once in a lifetime trip. Samudrika, Gandhi Park, Cellular Jail, Chatham Saw Mill, Marine Museum, Corbyn’s Cove Beach, Ross Island, Jolly Buoy Island, Wandoor Beach, Baratang, Mud Volcano, Limestone Cave are must-visits. In Havelock Island, visit Radhanagar Beach, famous for the sand. Do not miss the sunset here, Kalapathar Beach, Dolphin Resort (Try to stay here). If you are staying for more than a week, consider visiting Maya Bandar and Rangat.
The second of two exposed mud volcano of Triassic-Jurassic age (Lias, 200 to 180 ma) near Watchet. It is quite rare that it is still very well preserved since it is at the coast below the flood line (wave action).
The White Dome Geyser is about 100 yards down the road from the Great Fountain Geyser. Because of its massive 30 foot cone, this is believed to be one of the oldest geysers in Yellowstone. Eruptions can be anywhere between 10 minutes to 3 hours. Spray shoots 30 feet in the air. I had my Flip video and filmed White Dome erupting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eDSzc79_6Q
The yatris are moving towards the top of the muddy mountain of CHANDARKHUP, where they will perform pujas and other rituals.
Getting to the mud volcanoes meant a good nearly 4 odd km off road into the semi desert on an unbelievably bumpy unsealed road. Considering the number of cars visiting the site off and on, I am surprised the Government is not doing anything about the condition of the road. A computer printed sign for the volcanoes points vaguely into the distance. (Gobustan, Azerbaijan, Sept. 2017)
This is one of the mud volcanoes drying out where the slurry like mud has dried into a sludge. I love the perfectly meandering path carved out by the flowing mud! While more pictures about mud volcanoes appear even after this, detailed notes about them can be found in previous captions and earlier on in this album. (Gobustan, Azerbaijan, Sept. 2017)
Mud volcanoes are associated with oilfields. Rich oil and gas fields are found in the territories of mud volcanoes. In addition, lava, mud and liquid erupted by mud volcanoes are used as raw materials in chemical and construction industries and also in pharmacology.
Every 20 years or so, one of these mud/gas volcanoes will ignite deep below the surface and create a massive explosion. While generally not dangerous to people, as they are far outside of most city centers, it is believed that six shepherds and over 2,000 sheep were killed by a mud volcano in Bozdagh, Azerbaijan.