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