Is there a similarity between mud volcanoes and magmatic volcanoes?
Mud volcanoes and the magmatic ones are close relatives. They both are unpredictable from the point of view of their eruption. They both may form isles if they are erupted at the sea bottom. However, mud volcanoes are much more smaller and their eruptions, which though accompanied by the inflammation of HC gases and outburst of a large volume of the volcanic breccias (sometimes more than 1mln m3) unlike the eruptions of magmatic volcanoes, are short, mainly not more than 2 – 3 hours.
