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mud volcano
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mud volcano [′məd väl′kā·nō]
(geology)
A conical accumulation of variable admixtures of sand and rock fragments, the whole resulting from eruption of wet mud and impelled upward by fluid or gas pressure. Also known as hervidero; macaluba.


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One of the most extensively studied mud-volcano fields occurs at the Barbados convergent margin.
 
 
 
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