Mud literally oozes out of the ground, forming mini volcanoes |
Natural gas bubbling up through the mud causes them to pop |
The mud is being squeezed out of young rocks as the Caspian Basin subsides |
The mud is cold so the kids can just charge around |
Getting up close and personal |
The boys investigating |
Henry and Emma scaling one of the larger volcano cones we saw |
The crater |
The mud is pretty viscous |
A new volcano forming |
Emma found out that the crust at the edge of this mud lake was pretty thin! |
Volcano mud! |
Grace |
Kirstie and Steve |
The volcanoes occasionally catch fire, with the mud in the cones getting baked into very sharp rocks |
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