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Fluid Venting System - Hydrocarbon Leakage Indicators
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Photo gallery of Kotyrdag mud volcano - ​Azerbaijan
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by Martin Hovland
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The large Kotyrdag mud volcano in the background. Kotyrdag, means “The bald man”.
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Stiff mud extrusion by overpressured fluids on top of Kotyrdag mud volcano (picture slightly enhanced to show the extrusion clearer). This mud flow is about 3 km long and travels northwards to the adjacent plain.
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Side view of the stiff mud extrusion on Kotyrdag.
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Stiff mud extrusion by overpressured fluid on the summit of Kotyrdag mud volcano.
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A close up to the mud extrusion on Kotyrdag (see also Plannke et al., 2003).
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Another overview of the mud extrusion in Kotyrdag, clearly showing the steepness of the northern slope of the mud volcano.
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Side view of the mud extrusion on Kotyrdag. Note the brown sinters (baked clay), proving that there has also been burning gas near the summit vent of the extrusion.
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Same as above. One has to imagine that the mud travels at a speed of some millimetres or centimetres per day (it was not able to measure the speed whilst there for only one hour, in 2002).
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A suspected gas and mud vent on the way up to the summit of Kotyrdag mud volcano (photo by Håkon Rueslåtten).
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Hovland (left) and Svensen heading for Kotyrdag mud volcano (photo by Sverre Planke, 2002).
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