Mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan

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Mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan

The mud volcanoes of Qobustan (Azerbaijani: Palçıq vulkanı ) have been a geological reserve in the Azerbaijani community of Qobustan on the Absheron Peninsula since 2001 .

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In Azerbaijan there are about 300 pieces with the world's most mud volcanoes . That is around a third of all mud volcanoes in the world. Their occurrence in the area around Qobustan is closely connected with the local oil and gas deposits. Sometimes mud volcanoes spit bursts of fire several hundred meters high, as well as flashes of flames, fireballs and large amounts of mud . The last major outbreak occurred in 2001. When it erupted in 1887, there were flames up to 600 meters high.

Since December 2003, the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials has been continuously measuring the periodicity of the gas leakage from the Dashgil mud volcano in Qobustan in cooperation with the Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences.

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The gas that the mud volcanoes emit consists of 90% highly flammable methane . The mud contains iodine , bromine , calcium and magnesium and it is also rich in minerals . The mud is said to have a health-promoting effect on the skin.

The mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan are a tourist attraction.

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NASA researchers report that mud volcanoes on Mars are similar to the mud volcanoes in Qaraqus-Dagi in Azerbaijan. Speaking at the European Conference on Planetary Research, held in Rome in 2010 , Goro Komatsu from the University of Annunzio in Pescara, Italy , said : “On earth we know volcanoes that continue to give off methane long after they have stopped making mud to spit. [...] It could be the same on Mars. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Azərbaycan :: Baş səhifə. Retrieved June 28, 2018 (Azerbaijani).
  2. ↑ Mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan | Florian Neukirchen. March 3, 2011, accessed June 28, 2018 (German).
  3. ^ German-Azerbaijan Forum eV: Around Baku - Azerbaijan. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c Axel Bojanowski : 300 meter high jets of flames shot out of the ground . In: THE WORLD . January 1, 2005 ( welt.de [accessed June 28, 2018]).
  5. ↑ a b blog . In: Ethnoblog . May 27, 2018 ( ethnoblog.de [accessed June 28, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Harald Frater: scinexx | Paradise for mud volcano researchers: Azerbaijan and the "king" of the mud volcanoes. June 1, 2007, accessed December 9, 2018 .
  7. ↑ 11.2 Mud Volcanoes - Mysterious Phenomena Fascinate Scientists and Tourists by Ronnie Gallagher. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Thorsten Dambeck: Solution to methane riddle: Mars spits mud from within . In: Spiegel Online . September 24, 2010 ( spiegel.de [accessed June 29, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Traces of Life in Mud Volcanoes on Mars? In: freenet.de News . ( freenet.de [accessed June 29, 2018]).

literature

  • Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences Geology Institute: Ibrahim S. Guliyev, Akbar A. Feyzullayev: "All About Mud Volcanoes", 1996.