In the early 20th century, sailors near Alaska reported seeing black bubbles seeming to boil out from the sea, each one the size of the dome of the capitol building in Washington, D.C. They weren't ...

In the early 20th century, sailors near Alaska reported seeing black bubbles seeming to boil out from the sea, each one the size of the dome of the capitol building in Washington, D.C. They weren't ...

(CNN) — Stretching to the horizon, the gray-white earth rises in peaks like a well-whipped meringue petrified into mud and rock. A keen wind whips these otherworldly hills, while the land underfoot is ...

On May 29, 2006, a torrent of mud spewed from vents that opened up in the ground in a densely populated area of the Indonesian island of Java. That mudflow eventually buried houses, businesses and ...

Whenever reference is made to the mud volcano in Tabaquite, people generally respond “Oh yes, Piparo”. Though Piparo is ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a strange sight on May 29, 2006. The ground had ruptured overnight and was ...

Mud volcanoes are usually found in subduction zones — the parts of the globe where tectonic plates collide, sometimes causing earthquakes, tsunamis and violent eruptions. Pockets of subterranean gas ...

As magma squeezes its way out of a volcano, bubbles of lava-coated hot gas form. Volcanologists now report these emissions tell a more complex story of the chemistry going on during volcanic eruptions ...

Can a bubbling pool of mud really predict a volcanic eruption? That's the commonly held belief around the town of Paternò, Sicily, where residents think heightened activity at a gurgling pool of mud ...

The Davis-Schrimpf seep field is located about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southeast of Palm Springs, Calif., at an elevation of 230 feet (70 meters) below sea level. Here, carbon dioxide gases gurgle to ...

For 3 months a sea of hot mud has been gushing from the ground in Sidoarjo, East Java, 35 kilometres south of Indonesia's second largest city, Surabaya. The steaming mud pool is growing at an ...

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