A mud volcano has roared to life in front of a temple in Taiwan, with mesmerizing videos capturing the moments mud shot out ...

Mud volcanoes—relatively unheard of in North America, but prominent in volcanic regions around the globe—have quietly changed Earth’s landscape throughout our planet’s history. Eagle-eyed ...

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.

The Kumani Bank mud volcano has produced similar transient islands since its first recorded eruption in 1861, which created a landmass that measured just 285 feet across and 11.5 feet above the water.

Active mud volcanoes on Earth. (Image credit: CAS/Petr Brož CC BY-SA 4.0) And this information should be kept in mind when trying to understand geological features on worlds beyond Earth, they added.

"The mud volcanoes are probably always there just below the surface, coming up, going down again, coming up again. . . . Every now and then they come up far enough to reach the surface," Lindsay said.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Experts are analyzing a new set of small mud volcanoes discovered in recent days in the eastern Caribbean island of Trinidad that have prompted authorities to ...

Mud volcanoes on Mars could be the cause of distinctive features that most researchers had thought were left over from ancient lava flows. Tens of thousands of channels spread out over the Martian ...

Simpson has also studied mud volcanoes at Lake Powell. However, when that pressure is reduced, such as when water levels recede in the reservoir, the gas is allowed to expand, Simpson told St ...

Mud volcanoes in Lake Baikal are typically fed by gas hydrates, which are crystals of water and gas that form beneath bodies of water. Gas hydrates can become unstable in regions where tectonic ...

In fact, the authors' results suggest the sediment on the surface of this mud lake dates from only around 1.1 billion years ago: long after most of Mars's groundwater ought to have flooded out ...

Mud on Mars flows like lava does on Earth, so some features on the Red Planet that look like regular volcanoes may actually spew mud.. To examine the behaviour of mud on Mars, Petr Brož at the ...