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Mud volcanoes are classified as depositional landforms. ... A mud volcano is usually a small, very temporary structure. On land, mud volcanoes are found in two types of places. In one, volcanic gases rise through fine sediments to cause small eruptions and build cones of mud no more than a meter or two high.
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geology.about.com/library/bl/images/blmudvolcano.htm
geology.about.com/library/bl/images/blmudvolcano.htm
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The term "mud-volcano" generally is applied to a more or less violent eruption or surfaces extrusion of watery mud or clay which almost invariably is accompanied by methane gas, and which commonly tends to build up a solid mud or clay deposit around its orifice which may have a conical or volcano-like shape.
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www.gstt.org/teaching/mud%20volcanoes.htm
www.gstt.org/teaching/mud%20volcanoes.htm
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Sidoarjo mud flow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Sidoarjo mud flow or Lapindo mud , also informally abbreviated as Lusi , a contraction of Lumpur Sidoarjo ( lumpur is the Indonesian word for mud), is a mud volcano in the subdistrict of...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidoarjo_mud_flow
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SYDNEY (AFP) — Indonesia's devastating 'mud volcano' could keep spewing for the next 30 years, filling the equivalent of 50 Olympic-size swimming pools every day, a top Australian expert warned.
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www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hOafdtC6T6V...
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hOafdtC6T6VyAvYMpStWyWqM-YZQ
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IN the wake of the eruption at Piparo, geologists have stressed that "mud volcano" is a term applied to phenomena not directly associated with the far more destructive explosions and lava flows of true volcanoes, like the one now erupting in Monserrat.
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www.vulkaner.no/v/volcan/bcmudvol.html
www.vulkaner.no/v/volcan/bcmudvol.html
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Volcano Live ... Mud volcanoes are not true volcanoes and do not erupt lava or ash. They occur when mud and sand under the surface are squeezed upward by compressive forces and expelled at the surface.
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www.volcanolive.com/mud.html
www.volcanolive.com/mud.html
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Mud Volcano Eruption at Baratang, Middle Andamans ... A mud volcano started erupting at Baratang Island, Middle Andamans on 18th February 2003. There was a minor fissure eruption at the same site before 1983. This type of fissures are common at Baratang through which mud and gas constantly seeps out.
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www.gsi.gov.in/mudvol.htm
www.gsi.gov.in/mudvol.htm
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First came the 2004 tsunami. ... Then Indonesia was afflicted by the Merapi volcano and a major earthquake in Yogyakarta. Now, a heavily populated region of East Java has been consumed by an unstoppable "mud volcano" that may have been caused by a gas- and oil-drilling project.
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www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,442408,00.h...
www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,442408,00.html
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Dwarfed by an enormous dyke ringing the centre of a mud volcano in East Java, they kneel before the bubbling ooze, with reverential followers held back at security checkpoints. ... An ancient spirit, Semar, had told her she could halt the mud with prayer, she says.
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www.smh.com.au/news/world/blood-boils-as-mud-volcano-sw...
www.smh.com.au/news/world/blood-boils-as-mud-volcano-swallows-homes/2007/05/25/1179601668607.html?page=fullpage
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