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| Our family with our friends the Wallingfords |
It is Spring Break for our kids and we are revisiting some of our favorite places. We leave for the States in June so we want to take every opportunity to visit places that are special to us. Yesterday we visited some of the mud volcanoes. These are truly amazing and remind me how creative God is. It is said that there are nearly 400 mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan, which is more than half of the total the continents. Since I can't accurately explain what a mud volcano is I've included a bit of a description of below. This is taken from Azerbaijan International. The author is Ronnie Gallagher.
"Mud volcanoes," also known as "sedimentary volcanoes" or "gas - oil volcanoes," are close cousins to magmatic volcanoes. Just like magmatic volcanoes, they can erupt powerfully and hurl flames to great heights (sometimes even several hundred of meters). They spew out millions of cubic meters of hydrocarbon gases and tons of mud. Mud volcanoes also exist on the floor of the sea and can form islands and banks that alter the topography and shape of the coastline and even trigger earthquakes.
Another feature of mud volcanoes is their direct relationship to oil and gas fields. Mud volcanoes resemble super-deep exploration wells in the sense that they are direct indicators of hydrocarbons at great depths and provide valuable information on the formation and migration of oil and gas. Both mud volcanoes and hydrocarbon fields are the result of a single process of oil and gas formation, which has a characteristic vertical zone with methane gas forming in younger strata, overlying a zone of intense formation of oil and fatty gases
http://azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/ai112_folder/112_articles/112_mud_volcano.html
Below you will find some pictures of our family enjoying the volcanoes. As you can see we can get up close and personal them. I can't help but think that if this was in America they would be fenced off and we would be able to get no closer than 1/2 mile to any of them. We would have concession stands and a gift shop. All we had was an onlooking shepherd and his sheep!!
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| Chased by a pack of wild dogs on the way. FUN! |
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| Luke hanging out of the sunroof. I guess he was navigating. |
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| Notice the mud "bubble" It's getting ready to explode! |
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| The end of the explosion |
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| The race to the top |
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| Our friends daughter. Enjoying a mud spa treatment. haha |
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| David and I |
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| Notice it bubbling from the gasses. |
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| Luke and his friend. Both very dirty! |
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