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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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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 ;-)
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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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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.
All three photos posted this morning were taken yesterday, 25 June 2016, when I drove SW of the city to possibly meet friends. No one was sure how bad the weather was going to be, as the forecast was for rain and thunderstorms. It had rained overnight, so everywhere was soaking wet. Normally, on a day like that, I stay home, but I'm really glad I did go, especially as I was able to find a Bobolink again. Or, perhaps I should say it found me. Three times now, when I have been photographing a particular pair of Mountain Bluebirds, I have heard a certain call, turned around, and there was a Bobolink sitting on a fence post across the road. It just kept up this call until I stopped what I was doing, crossed the road, and started taking photos of him, as if to say: "Hey, take my photo, too!"
I didn't think any friends were going to turn up, as I hadn't seen anything that looked like a small convoy of cars. Then suddenly, one single car came around a distant corner and stopped. Three people got out - Andrew, Tony and Howard. Three people who are excellent birders and who didn't let the weather keep them from doing what they love.
I followed them slowly as far as Brown-Lowery Provincial Park, where the day's walk was supposed to take part, stopping to look at various birds along the way, Once there, we parted ways, as I didn't want hours of walking in mud and dripping trees. Instead, I wandered for a few minutes near the parking lot, where I took my next two photos and then I returned to the Bluebirds, where the Bobolink reappeared and repeated his behavior, giving me another chance for photos.
And now I have to dash, as I overslept almost an hour, and I have to pick up a friend and then do a long drive NW of the city, where we will be meeting others for a walk, followed by a BBQ. Ths annual event is always very enjoyable - just hope the forecast rain and thunderstorms stay away! Will have to finish off my tags this evening. Gotta run!
"Perched on a grass stem or displaying in flight over a field, breeding male Bobolinks are striking. No other North American bird has a white back and black underparts (some have described this look as wearing a tuxedo backwards). Added to this are the male’s rich, straw-colored patch on the head and his bubbling, virtuosic song. As summer ends he molts into a buff and brown female-like plumage. Though they’re still fairly common in grasslands, Bobolink numbers are declining." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Bobolink/id
"The Bobolink inhabits Canada's grassland and agricultural areas from the interior of British Columbia to the east coast. Relative to 1970 levels, this species has shown a large decrease across most of its range, with the exception of the Prairie Potholes Bird Conservation Region where populations have changed little. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada assessed the Bobolink as Threatened in 2010 (COSEWIC 2010d). This species has been identified as a priority for conservation and/or stewardship in one or more Bird Conservation Region Strategies in Canada."
www.ec.gc.ca/soc-sbc/oiseau-bird-eng.aspx?sY=2014&sL=...
Andrew's list of birds (24 species) seen during the time I was with his group of 3;
Plummers Road
Jun 25, 2016
9:00 AM
Traveling
20.00 km
60 Minutes
All birds reported? Yes
Comments: 15 deg C, overcast turning to sunny.
Submitted from eBird for iOS, version 1.2.2 Build 70
10 Canada Goose
2 Mallard
4 Blue-winged Teal
6 Lesser Scaup
3 Bufflehead
1 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Sora
3 Wilson's Snipe
2 Northern Flicker
1 Eastern Phoebe
1 Eastern Kingbird
1 Common Raven
4 Tree Swallow
1 Barn Swallow
4 Mountain Bluebird
10 American Robin
3 Gray Catbird
2 European Starling
2 Clay-colored Sparrow
2 Savannah Sparrow
1 Lincoln's Sparrow
3 Bobolink
30 Red-winged Blackbird
3 American Goldfinch
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For this bracelet I used African style mud cloth canes inspired by Donna Kato and long Andromeda die forms from Dan Cormier. Für dieses Armband habe ich Mud Cloth Canes nach Donna Kato verwendet, in Kombination mit der neuen "Long Andromeda" Form von Dan Cormier.
One of three rhinos in a group that was relaxing in the midday hotness. Photographed in Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary.
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
This is the first time I have seen a mud brick chimney. I grew up in a mud brick home, but the chimney was brick.
Happy Monday everyone, been taking a break from snapping photos and feeling the need to get some more! In the meantime I've been looking at earlier ones and found this snap from early April at the Coogoorah Reserve at Anglesea.
ISO 200 | 1/60 sec | f/8 | 34mm
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!
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