Azerbaijan has more than 400 mud volcanoes, more than anywhere else on Earth. Come along for an off-road tour of these fascinating geological oddities.

Mud Volcanoes in Azerbaijan. Credit: Naturefriends / Wikimedia Commons In addition to their beauty and geological rarity, mud volcanoes have several practical uses. The mud and ejected materials are ...

Mud volcanoes are geological formations that erupt a mixture of mud, gases, and liquids from beneath the Earth's surface. Azerbaijan is known for having an unusually high concentration of these ...

Located at the tip of the Kumani Bank mud volcano on the coast of Azerbaijan, the island is said to be separated from the mainland by about 12.4 miles or 20 kilometers.

Mud volcanoes are little known in North America, but much more common in other parts of the world, including not only Indonesia but also Azerbaijan, Trinidad, Italy and Japan.

Azerbaijan is known as a region of rare and classic mud volcanoes. Of the more than 2,000 known mud volcanoes on Earth, over 350 are located in eastern Azerbaijan and the Caspian Sea basin.

A island formed by the Kumani Bank mud volcano in the Caspian Sea stretched nearly 400 meters across in early 2023. Within a year, it was one-quarter the size.

It eroded entirely by 1862. Azerbaijan has an unusually high concentration of mud volcanoes with more than 300 counted both on land and offshore in the Caspian Sea ...

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Mud volcanoes are little known in North America, but much more common in other parts of the world, including not only Indonesia but also Azerbaijan, Trinidad, Italy and Japan.