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muddy wonder I


muddy wonder I
Photo Information
Copyright: Michal Grabowski (cedryk) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 966 W: 52 N: 1694] (5184)
Genre: Landscapes
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-08-31
Categories: Mountain
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 8700, 35-280 - f2.8-4.2, @ ISO 50, Hoya UV Filter
Exposure: f/4.1, 1/182 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Geological Wonders, Volcanoes and Volcanic Areas [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2005-09-14 19:02
Viewed: 1924
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Mud vulcanos (Vulcani Noroiosi) is one the most unusual and intriguing natural places in Romania. They occur in the section of the Carpathian Mountains called Carpatii Curburii, which is a passage between the East and Southern Carpathians. The rocks in the area is full of oil and methane and that is probably the reason for the vulcanos to occur. The methane sips up through the rocks carrying water, hydrocarbon fluids and particles of soil. The temperature of the vulcanos is low. Usually you may see just as the liquid bubbles but sometimes it erupts and the rivers of mud flow down the hills. Salt and calcite appear when the mud dryes and the whole area looks a bit like form out of this world.

This is the first picture of a number I would like to devote to this place - one of the European nature wonders.

Here you have another view by red45 :-)
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  • Great 
  • lukdm Gold Star Critiquer [C: 51 W: 0 N: 7] (165)
  • [2005-09-15 11:55]

Very interesting photo...artistic. :)

  • Great 
  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3316 W: 149 N: 6113] (18648)
  • [2005-10-05 5:29]

Hi Michal, You have got me intrigued with your mud volcanoes. This is a good photo, with the bright patch of sky showing above the hills and reflecting in the pond. Well captured, thank you.

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