
        Mud literally oozes out of the ground, forming mini volcanoes 
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        Natural gas bubbling up through the mud causes them to pop 
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        The mud is being squeezed out of young rocks as the Caspian Basin subsides 
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        The mud is cold so the kids can just charge around 
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        Getting up close and personal 
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        The boys investigating 
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        Henry and Emma scaling one of the larger volcano cones we saw 
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        The crater 
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        The mud is pretty viscous 
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        A new volcano forming 
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        Emma found out that the crust at the edge of this mud lake was pretty thin! 
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        Volcano mud! 
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        Grace 
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        Kirstie and Steve 
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        The volcanoes occasionally catch fire, with the mud in the cones getting baked into very sharp rocks 
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