Mud volcanoes typically form in geological settings with high sedimentation rates such as compressional tectonic belts, submarine slopes and, as for Lusi, in inverted backarc basins 5,6.

Chinese geological experts said recently while prospecting the mud volcano in Dushanzi of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region that the mud volcano is a rare natural landscape in the world and it's ...

The Borealis Mud Volcano is only the second found in Norwegian ... Underwater mud volcanoes are difficult to spot and map, but researchers estimate there could be hundreds or thousands of them ...

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management image A 200-mile-long “ultra-deepwater” river off Florida is among the surprises researchers have discovered while creating a high-resolution 3D map of the ...

The "weird" sandy protrusion emerged in the Caspian Sea after a mud volcano erupted in early 2023. An artist's impression of Nasa's Landsat 8 satellite, which snapped the photos of the "ghost ...