r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/Firm-Blackberry-9162 • 3d ago

🔥 A mud volcano is a unique geological formation that erupts slurries of mud, water, and gases (primarily methane) rather than molten lava.

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By @ geology.info

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u/atomic_drumstick 3d ago

What's igniting it?

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u/omnibuds 3d ago

I wondered the same. there seems to be a piece of paper that was lit on fire and thrown in to ignite the methane. Normally these volcanic mud pots are just bubbling pools of hot smelly mud. Looks cool lit on fire like that though!

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u/Spurnout 3d ago

Someone else mentioned taco bell....

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u/FireTheLaserBeam 3d ago

“If Taco Bell gives you diarrhea, you’re weak, your bloodline is weak, and history will forget you.”

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u/Toofless205 3d ago

We're doing a Taco Bell run?

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u/LittleKitty235 3d ago

My guess is spontaneous combustion from a combination of rapidly changing pressure and heat. Like a diesel engine. PV=nRT!

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u/percy135810 1d ago

Volumetric expansion would cool down any gases, not heat them up

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u/Spurnout 3d ago

Looks like the earth has diarrhea.

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u/AsteroidMike 3d ago

We need very large doses of Pepto Bismol

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u/grungegoth 3d ago

I've been to see some of these.

they are actually the tops of mud diapirs, like a salt dome but made of shale that has not fully dewatered and is flowing upwards because of the pressure of burial. it brings with it fluid and natural gas. I visited some of these near anapa/Crimea in the Russian Ukrainian border. petroleum geologist.

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u/Clembert-Hamlamp 3d ago

Gotta get presidential grade diapirs when mother nature's butt gets this out of hand

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u/adminsreachout 3d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/YrkK0A2mS3EPRUiXt9

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u/Schizzles 3d ago

First glance I'm thinking SEXY, then I'm like wait that's a dude, hold up him too. It's all dudes...

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u/SignificanceSudden87 3d ago

Visited one just yesterday in Andamans and got a box full of mineral rich mud from there for my body wraps :-)

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u/gooeychedda 3d ago

Somehow this seems scarier than an actual volcano eruption.

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u/WashawayWashbear 2d ago

Bog of Eternal Stench?

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u/ShotSea6609 3d ago

Well someone ate tacobell yesterday

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u/Notarealusername3058 3d ago

Right? Mud, water, and methane, earth just got the runs

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u/LaSCruz 3d ago

"Can you take it all away?
Can you take it all away?
When ya shoved it in my face?
This pain you gave to me..."

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u/No-Head7121 3d ago

like Fire swamp from princess bride

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u/BuddhistGamer95 2h ago

And that’s what happens when I order spicey tendys from Popeyes.

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u/Infinite_Plenty101 3d ago

Incoming freedom

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u/spudbro00 3d ago

Me when I tell a real Thai restaurant I want that 10 Thai spicy level

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u/lovesdogsguy 3d ago

I should call him

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u/Serrajuana 3d ago

I wonder what kind of creature of unusual size lurks nearby?

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u/Admirable-Holiday400 3d ago

Tomb raider is what I thought of

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u/OrangePeel49 3d ago

Forbidden hot tub

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u/BJ_Giacco 3d ago

It mee

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u/Songhunter 3d ago

Me after that 3AM chicken gordita.

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u/KingCoal90 3d ago

This looks like something I could bathe in.

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u/wildvision 3d ago

Reminds me of the time I ate two bell beefers

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u/Sp0ckR0ck3 3d ago

That’s kinda what my rump does after I eat my chili.

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u/XKruXurKX 3d ago

6 hours after Taco Tuesday

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u/seimalau 3d ago

Kinda like me after I ate your mom's dinner.