| --- On Sun, 2/27/11, Lin Kerns <linkerns@gmail.com> wrote: >The close view of newly appeared mud volcano near Hingol shows oozing of Methane gas. – Photo courtesy by Geological Survey of Pakistan. Hingol, Balochistan: A soft muddy island appeared a few kilometers offshore in Hingol on the Makran coast, Balochistan on November 16, 2010. The Director General, Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) dispatched a team of earth scientists to investigate the sudden appearance of this white mud dome, about three kilometres offshore near the Kund Malir beach.The island is 90 metres high with a span of approximately three kilometers.Before the upsurge of sludge, local fishermen reported high tides near the coast and several boats were trapped due to the emergence of this mud volcano from nowhere. Another island of similar nature was also reported to have appeared 12 years ago. That island disappeared into the sea after four months. It is inferred that this mud dome which is given the name of Khizr, will also disappear with passage of time when methane and other gases are released from this structure. >Methane gas emitted out from the vent-2 is highly flammable while vent-3 mostly reacts after four minutes with sound and pressure and mud is flown in the air up-to 15 meters.Azerbaiijan and its Caspian coastline are home to nearly 400 mud volcanoes. While mud volcanoes found in Andaman Island, India; Taman Peninsula of Russia and Kerch Peninsula and Ukarine are sometimes used for recreation, this is not advisable with Makran coast mud volcanoes due to the unpredictability of ongoing seismic activity and sudden eruptions.Asif Nazeer Rana, Deputy Director, Geolabs, Geological Survey of Pakistan, Islamabad and former director of GSP museum at Quetta. Source There's a very nice mud volcano field not far from the Salton Sea over on the southwest side. It is in a rift setting and although not nearly as big as what this article is talking about, the field has been active for quite some time. I understand that sometime in the 1930s there was a resort there. Diorite |
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