Photo album of mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan
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​"Mud volcanoes are some of the world's most dynami and statically unstable clastic features. We define a mud volcano as a positive topographical feature constructed mainly of mud, and other sedimentary constituents, which periodically or continuously vents liquid mud, including water, oil, and gas."  -  Hovland et al. (1997).
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Lokbatan mud volcano and oil field in the background. A man is collecting salt from the Lokbatan lagune.
The Lokbatan mud volcano had a violent and hot eruption in October 2001.

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​This photo album includes pictures of mud volcanoes at Garadagh, Lake Masasyr-Gel, Lokbatan, Dashgil, Kotyrdag and ​Perigishgy as shown below. 


​References

Hovland, M., Hill, A., & Stokes, D. (1997). The structure and geomorphology of the Dashgil mud volcano, Azerbaijan. Geomorphology, 21(1), 1-15.
Planke, S., Svensen, H., Hovland, M., Banks, D. A., & Jamtveit, B. (2003). Mud and fluid migration in active mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan. Geo-Marine Letters, 23(3-4), 258-268.