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This is just a quicky, not a full-fledged Sunday Morning Volcano post.

It’s a sort of follow-up to the Piparo mud volcano post. Mud volcanoes are caused by geologic processes other than volcanism; this is true volcanism, although it’s of a type that is not very common on Earth at this moment of the planet’s history:

More information:

• Global Volcanism Program (GVP) page
• Wikipedia page
• USGS (2003): The World’s Coolest Lava
• A 2022 paper on carbonatites (jargon alert). I haven’t read beyond the abstract, but it has more than 200 citations on Google Scholar.

Reportedly, rumors of an eruption are circulating online (I haven’t seen them) and these journalists checked in with folks living near the volcano — it’s sound asleep.

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Feature image: PLANET EARTH/Shutterstock

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