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History of the Geological Study of Mud Volcanoes in the Black Sea Region

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Mud Volcanoes of the Black Sea Region and their Environmental Significance

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This chapter discusses the history of the study of mud volcanoes in the Black Sea region from ancient times to the present. In ancient times, there were random, isolated descriptions of anomalous phenomena associated with mud volcanoes. Serious scientific study of mud volcanic activity began at the end of the eighteenth century. One of the first naturalists to describe a catastrophic eruption (of the Golubitskiy mud volcano in the Sea of ​​Azov) was P. Pallas. By the nineteenth century, mud volcanoes had already been described by many researchers.

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Shnyukov, E., Yanko-Hombach, V. (2020). History of the Geological Study of Mud Volcanoes in the Black Sea Region. In: Mud Volcanoes of the Black Sea Region and their Environmental Significance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40316-4_1

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