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The Berca Mud Volcanoes 6 by Alexandra Baltog

The Berca Mud Volcanoes 6


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Alexandra Baltog

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3.05.2007 at 6:19h, License: All pictures © by the senders.
The Berca Mud Volcanoes are a geological and botanical reservation located in the Berca commune in the Buzau, County in Romania. Its most spectacular feature is the mud volcanoes, some small (a few meters high) volcano-shaped structures caused by the eruption of natural gasses.

As the gasses erupt from 3000 meters-deep towards the surface, through the underground layers of clay and water, they push up underground salty water and mud, so that they overflow through the mouths of the volcanoes, while the gas emerges as bubbles. The mud dries off at the surface, creating a realatively solid conical structure, resembling a real volcano. The mud expelled by them is cold, as it comes from inside the Earth's continental crust layers, and not from the mantle.

The reservation is unique in Europe, with similar phenomena being observed in Siberia and Australia.
The mud volcanoes create a strange lunar landscape, due to the absence of vegetation around the cones. Vegetation is scarce because the soil is very salty, an environmental condition in which few plants can survive. However, this kind of environment is good for some rare species of plants, such as Nitraria schoberi and Obione verrucifera.

The phenomenon can be observed on two separate locations near the Berca commune, dubbed the Little Mud Volcanoes and The Big Mud Volcanoes.

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Tom McAlexander , 3.05.2007 at 6:40h

This one is absolutely lovely.
Aloha
Tom


Angela Mahler, 3.05.2007 at 6:58h

It´s a beautiful landscape. Very nice!
rgds Angela


CsomorLászló , 3.05.2007 at 9:40h

Like it!


Alfred Spectrum, 3.05.2007 at 10:16h

Nice landscape and good foreground.


Aniko Mocher, 3.05.2007 at 10:22h

Lovely shapes and forms created by nature!
br,
Anikó


Abdul Khaliq, 3.05.2007 at 13:00h

Fine composition of layers of nature and its colors.


DRAGA PUC, 3.05.2007 at 16:29h

great composition, beautiful colours
regards
draga


Cees Kuijs, 3.05.2007 at 19:02h

Very well composed picture, Alex. Lovely with all the curves and lines. Great one.
Greetings, Cees


BRYAN CRUTE, 3.05.2007 at 19:02h

Excellent picture, thanks for this series of images from a very strange place !

Regards
Bryan


Anca Silvia B., 4.05.2007 at 9:36h

Excellent...
Anca


Dennis Maloney, 4.05.2007 at 17:25h

Great series on the mud volcanos...excellent documentation...thank you for sharring them, den


Kathryn Dixon, 5.05.2007 at 19:58h

A great shot with the contrasts between the mud and greenery. And the crowning atmospheric clouds.
Your good composition makes it very appealing to the eye.
Kathryn


Giancarlo Alessandrini, 5.05.2007 at 20:10h

Colori pastello x una cartolina stupenda
ciao Gian


AG Joseph, 12.05.2007 at 22:16h

The area looks nice.
Good presentation.
Andrea


Marie Strydom, 5.06.2007 at 11:58h

Excellent DOF in this image.


Pascal Viyer, 6.06.2007 at 11:03h

Excellent explain, great dof !
amitié Alex
p^v


Fabio Sguazzin, 16.06.2007 at 7:16h

Stupenda troppo bella +++complimenti Fabio


Alexandru Sorin , 5.11.2007 at 20:24h

Birth of the Earth, VISION OF


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