That’s a mix of water and rocky debris that sometimes whooshes down the side of a volcano. It’s also called a debris flow or a volcanic mud flow.

Scientists on the AKMA3 ocean expedition discovered an exceptional underwater feature consisting of a mud volcano in the ...

Not-So-Harmless Mud Even if it has no predictive power, the Sicilian mud volcano has become a popular site for locals and tourists. Its gently bubbling surface and relatively small size make it a ...

The image above is the sea floor offshore Nigeria showing an active uplifting ridge with a mud volcano. Unfortunately there is no scale included on this image … my guess is that ridge is 3-5 km ...

Indonesian plans to plug a mud volcano that has displaced more than 10,000 people by dropping clusters of concrete balls into it is unlikely to stop the flow, a Japanese scientist said Tuesday.

Public Works Minister Djoko Kirmanto said efforts would continue to cap the so-called mud volcano, which has been streaming from the ground at a rate of 1.7 million cubic feet a day. In the ...

The resulting reservoir of mud can be trapped underground. In the case of the East Java mud flow, the mud is thought to have come from a reservoir some 2.7 kilometres below the Earth's surface.