Boiling mud pool
by Sarah Weick, KIT, Germany
This boiling mud pool can be found in Rotorua, New Zealand. Located in an active volcanic hazard zone, volcanic gases react with rock material and create a clay-rich consistence.
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- Energy, Resources and the Environment (322)
- Field (2822)
- Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (901)
- Natural Hazards (507)
- Tectonics and Structural Geology (569)
Location
- Oceania (227)
- Australia and New Zealand (214)
- New Zealand (125)
- Exact location (176.3751 E, -38.3029 S)
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4000 × 3000 px;
image/jpeg; 3.2 MB
Camera:
Canon Digital IXUS 200 IS
Taken on 23
August
2013
Submitted on 25 February 2015
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Credit
Sarah Weick (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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