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At exactly 5:59AM the dogs were being released
in The Mud Cobra Field. At exactly 6:59AM they
were being loaded-up so we can head 4 home.
As you can see here, it was a real quagmire.
Millions of Mr Murphy traps, some bigger
than others. But everyone of them was
a disaster just waiting to happen ;-0-
Getting all the way to the rest area was
a Rodeo Ride x 10 ! Twice I was knocked
out of the saddle, landing hard in the mud.
Today is Thursday August 22 2024.
So why is that so important you ask ?
Well yesterday, being Wednesday, is the
only day the dog clinic is closed. Safety
being high on the list for the dogs,
Wednesday is usually the day
we don't go 2 the m/c field.
Dogs were having "cabin fever" issues.
No rain this morning so we took a little
chance and did a little dance and here
we are, already talking about our wild
adventure splashing about in the Mud.
Getting out, I had to get off an on the
scooter, pushing while twisting the wick.
Once home it took longer to wash each dog !
They are all, Professional Mud Monsters ;-)-
Jon&Crew
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On a sidewalk in a residential construction site in Madison, Alabama. Heavy rain washed mud around some object on the sidewalk. Someone moved that object after the mud had dried.
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Another one of our camp mud creatures make an appearance. She really enjoyed making the most of this! Don't know why, but they always want to hug you when they are full of mud!
Mud Creek Falls lies in the town of Sky Valley, GA, just across the border from NC. These are some unshared shots from a visit late last November, after the best of fall had moved through.
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Explore 19 Apr 2009 #138
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The last of the volcanoes series...
Mud volcanoes appear mostly when gas pockets or gas deposits associated with oil manage to seep to the surface, transporting water mixed with solid material (mud, made mainly of clay and sand). Of course, these volcanoes are not hot at all, on the contrary, they can have temperatures that almost reach the freezing point. Their relief stands for 2-3 years, compared to tens of thousands of years in the case of the real volcanoes.
Still, the largest mud volcanoes have a diameter of 10 km (6 mi) and are 700 meters (2,300 ft) tall. But most of them have surfaces of tens of square meters to several hectares.
About 1,100 mud volcanoes have been detected on land (700) and in shallow water, but there may be much more than 10,000 on continental slopes and abyssal plains.
In Europe, mud volcanoes are found on the Kerch Peninsula (southeastern Ukraine) and northern Apennines and Sicily (Italy). Easily accessible are the mud volcanoes of Berca (Buzau, Romania) close to the Carpathians.
300 out of the world's 700 known mud volcanoes are located in Eastern Azerbaijan and the shores of the Caspian Sea. A 2001 eruption 15 kilometers (9 mi) from Baku spewed flames which were 15 m (45 ft) tall.
Mud volcanoes are also found in the mountains between Iran and Pakistan, China's western Uyghur province, Arakan Coast (Myanmar) and nearby Andaman islands and South Taiwan.
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Professional Mud Monsters returning home
after doing battle in the mud cobra field ;-)-
They chased birds and splashed through
the deep quagmire at high rates of speed.
Once again we parked by the bird house and
walked in. Mr Murphy traps are everywhere !
No rain this morning but upon our arrival
at the m/c field I dismounted and did a
walkabout. No way was the bike going
into the field. The walk does me good.
After an hour the three monsters were
loaded up into the sidecar and off we
went stopping first at the village gas
station for fuel. Once home dogs &
bike are hosed down, then fed ;-)
Thank You.
Jon&Crew.
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An early thaw, in late February, brings mud, puddles, ugly blackened snowbanks, and, where sugar maples grow, the running sap that will be boiled down into the nectar of the northeast, maple syrup. Doesn't that thought sweeten this dark view?
Rockport, MA
A western tiger swallowtail, Papilio rutulus, and a short-tailed swallowtail, Papilio indra, sip fluids from mud at the edge of a small pond.
Puddling provides butterflies with both salts and amino acids, for which males have greater needs than females, and consequently most puddling butterflies are male.
These two were part of a large group, containing about 7 species, puddling at Heil Ranch, Boulder, Colorado.
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Second Set of the annual MALDON MUD RACE NIKON F65 Fresh KENTMERE 400 film in 510-Pyro for 11 mins AF Nikkor 28-80mm f3.3-5.6 G
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This series of photographs shows a miniature mud volcano and it's' accompanying miniature mud flow what my family refers to as the "Mud Fairies' Miniature Mud Volcanoes" which are located on the north end of the Microcasm Basin in the Pocket Basin Mud Pots in the Lower Geyser Basin. The first 5 photos show a gas bubble forming and bursting in a shallow miniature mud volcano (small coned mudpots). The gas bubble sometimes times cause their mud to flow out of the central crater and down the sides form mudflows. In this pictures several flows of different ages can be seen. The last 3 photos show the details of one of these accompanying flows.
The towering mud-brick walls of Dimai (Dimeh es-Seba) date back as early as the 3rd century BC foundation of ancient Soknopaiou Nesos, sited on a plateau north of Lake Qarun. The massive walls of the central temenos, dedicated to the crocodile-headed goddess Soknopaios (another name for Sobek in the Hellenistic Faiyum), are constructed in segments with curved courses for stabilizing the unfired bricks.
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One of three rhinos in a group that was relaxing in the midday hotness. Photographed in Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary.
I was trying to photograph some very large black and yellow mud-dauber wasps when this smaller species turned up. They all collect mud from a damp spot on the lawn in our holiday garden in Sicily.
I'll post some images of the larger species when I manage to get a decent shot (they are not very tolerant of human company!
Mud wrestlers during a bout at the Akhara Siyaram club on the banks of the Hoogly River in Kolkata. There are about fifty club members who treat the facility rather like a gym where they meet at around 5am to practice their training routines under the guidance of the guru, Jawala Tewari.
Kolkata, West Bengal. India.
December 2017. © David Hill
Just off the road to Krýsuvík is a solfatara field at Seltún, Iceland which contains mud pools, acidic hot springs; fumaroles and steaming ground. Fumaroles in the area deposit sulfur and sulphates on the ground near the vents. Fumaroles whose steam is rich in sulfur are called solfataras. The main sulphur area is a fumarole field that lies southwest of the boardwalk at Seltún but sulfur and sulphates around some of the steam vents, mud pools and acidic hot springs were visible to us as we strolled along the boardwalk.
Seltún is part of the large Krýsuvík Geothermal field which lies on one of the NE-SW trending volcanic systems that cross the Reykjanes Peninsula. The volcanic zones lie in the middle of the fissure zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which traverses Iceland and are visible along the south of Reykjanes.
In the mid-20th century there were plans to develop the geothermal field for utilization, including power production, and Seltún then became one of the main drilling targets. There are old drill pads to be seen near the path along the creek. According to the Iceland Geosurvey (ISOR) one of the "boreholes started erupting intermittently in the winter of 2010". They reported that an interval of a few days between the eruptions. We found the spot but on two different visits to the field I saw no sign of geyser activity. ISOR also reports "another old borehole blew up in 1999 forming a crater with a diameter of about 30 m, now filled by mud except where a flow of steam keeps boiling pits open". That unexpected explosion in 1999 reportedly caused the geothermal project to be halted. The springs have been preserved due to the lack of drilling and geothermal exploitation.
Temperatures are over 200 degrees C just below the surface. Geologist from the Iceland Geosurvey believe "the water of the pools is surface water heated by steam from a boiling geothermal reservoir. Accompanying gases such as hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide acidify the water and alter the rock to clay. Only the uppermost 300 m of the reservoir at Seltún is boiling, i.e., follows the boiling curve in accordance with increasing pressure. Below this depth, a temperature inversion occurs, indicating that the boiling section is fed laterally from an upflow some distance away.”
The geothermal field is located in the Reykjanes Geopark.
Geologic and geothermal info from Iceland GeoSurvey (ISOR) . Some text in the caption from their web page at: www.geothermal.is/17-seltun-high-temperature-area-solfataras