Berca Mud Volcanoes

The Berca Mud Volcanoes is a geological and botanical reservation placed in Scor?oasa commune near Berca in Buz?u County in Romania. Its maximum dazzling characteristic is the dust volcanoes, small volcano-shaped structures commonly a few metres excessive due to the eruption of dust and herbal gases. The mud volcanoes create a odd lunar landscape, because of the absence of flowers around the cones. Vegetation is scarce because the soil is very salty, an environmental situation in which few plant life can continue to exist. However, this kind of surroundings is right for some uncommon species of flowers, inclusive of Nitraria schoberi and Obione verrucifera.

As the gases erupt from 3000 metres deep toward the surface, via the underground layers of clay and water, they push up underground salty water and mud, so that they overflow through the mouths of the volcanoes, at the same time as the gasoline emerges as bubbles. The dust dries off at the floor, creating a surprisingly solid conical shape such as a actual volcano. The dust expelled by means of them is cold, as it comes from within the Earth's continental crust layers, and no longer from the mantle.