Azerbaijan Mud Volcano
by Rashad Amrahov, Baku, Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan is in the first place in the world for the amount of mud volcanoes. Mud volcanoes broadly spread in Azerbaijan. There are about 350 of 800 volcanoes of the world in Azerbaijani Republic. Underground and submarine mud volcanoes also famed in Azerbaijan. There are more than 140 submarine volcanoes in the Caspian Sea. Eight islands in the Baku Archipelago are mud volcanoes by origination. Dashgil is one of the grand and marvelous mud volcano in this territory.
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- Asia (1063)
- Western Asia (303)
- Azerbaijan (30)
- Exact location (49.0000 E, 40.0000 N)
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Canon PowerShot SD850 IS
Taken on 20
August
2012
Submitted on 24 February 2016
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Rashad Amrahov (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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