The world's largest group of mud volcanoes - Wusu City, Xinjiang group of mud volcanoes

Xinjiang University Resources and Environmental Sciences, College of experts in the examination in 2001 Cha Wusu City tourism resources, found at the northern slope of Tianshan mountain hills of the 36 are the mud volcano eruption. After China's geological research scientist at the scene confirmed, they announced the discovery of this: From the information currently available, this is the world's largest group of mud volcanoes. These soil on the crater near the town of Bai Yanggou of less than 0.5 square kilometers, the largest diameter of 1.6 meters, like a small broad beans. The mud volcano eruption in the mouth was round and oval shapes, and so on, some as deep as 1 meter above the ground floor of the exhaust gas and mud eruptions in the mouth kept somersault, the eruption of violent eruption Yamaguchi per minute more than 60 times-eruption Green has two red brown and gray, and some above-eruption is also a floating black oil. About 100 million years ago, in the role of stress, water, gas, as well as soft rock hybrid form of mud, washed through the Tertiary mudstone sediments along the faults and fissures intermittent smoke on the ground, the formation of such a natural mud volcano Wonders. Experts said that the mud volcano is formed by faulting rare natural scenery in the world, only the United States, Mexico, New Zealand and a small number of countries mud volcano, China Taiwan and Kaohsiung areas there are also mud volcano, but the size and number of Usu City of Xinjiang and can not be found Mud volcano group on the same day and language. Experts look forward to the world's largest, are eruptions of mud volcanoes group of us, to show the activities of the mysteries of the earth's crust, the deep strata of information and strange magic of the natural landscape. Usu Volcano soil: Usu City, 43 km south-west