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Mark Tingay
@CriticalStress_
Geomechanics & pore pressure specialist. Love & study mud volcanoes, stress & overpressure. Opinions my own.
Aug 20 • 103 tweets • 36 min read
🚨🚨A Very Special Thread!🚨🚨

Let's solve a 126 year old mystery with a geological detective story involving:
The TV show Survivor;
19th Century Italian pirate novels;
Eating Borneo pigeons;
400 year old maps, and;
‘Ghost Islands’.

Read on for some mud volcano myth-busting! Image I must warn you that this is a big thread of ~100 posts. It is a long read with some weird twists and turns.

I really hope folks will enjoy this story, but also feel free to go grab a cup of tea or something first before settling in!
Jul 6 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Wandan mud volcano in southern Taiwan erupted again on the 6th July.

This is the 9th eruption of the mud volcano in the last two years. The eruption was from 4 different vents.

Video is courtesy of my friend 張寶惠, the mud volcano temple caretaker.

Best with sound on! These three vents are located ~50m to the SE of the mud volcano temple and are common recent eruption points in the last few years.

Video from 張寶惠
Dec 26, 2023 • 29 tweets • 11 min read
Today I got to tick something off my bucket list.

Today I got to EAT a mud volcano!

This mud volcano.

No, I’m not joking.

A thread… I’m currently touring around beautiful eastern Taiwan with my family.

It’s absolutely wonderful scenery, thanks to the fantastic geology.

This is Taipingshan, up in the central mountains. Image
Jan 10, 2023 • 21 tweets • 7 min read
🚨New baby Mud Volcano Island in Indonesia!🚨

Starting a running thread on this new island that was born today after this morning's large Mw7.6 quake off the Tanimbar Islands, Maluku Province. Big thanks to @pamumpuni who first put me onto this, and sent me this article.

tanimbarnews.com/2023/01/fenome…
Jul 30, 2022 • 71 tweets • 21 min read
IT’S MUD VOLCANO DAY!!

I love mud volcanoes, but have not managed to visit one for about 3 years. But hopefully today that changes.

So, today I’ll be doing a running thread on my hunt for this mud volcano - the Labuan mud volcano.

Photo courtesy Howard Johnson. Image So, a bit of background. Yesterday I arrived on Labuan, an Malaysian island off the NW coast of Borneo.

I’ve only been here once before, but it was about 22 years ago when I was doing my PhD on NW Borneo. Image
Aug 25, 2021 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
An absolutely stunning view of the unusual agricultural fields on Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands off western Africa. These round features in the dark volcanic earth are an ingenious and visually stunning combination of geology and agriculture.

A volcano agriculture thread. I have often admired the Canary Islands on Google Earth. Whilst I love mud volcanoes, it is impossible not to be impressed by the striking beauty of landscapes produced by 'normal' volcanoes.
Jul 5, 2021 • 37 tweets • 14 min read
Big jet of fire in the Caspian Sea off Azerbaijan at ~9:30pm local time on the 4th of July.

First official reports say its a big offshore mud volcano eruption.

This may be the Makarov Bank mud volcano, which did exactly this in 1958.

Let's start a quick evolving thread! Okay, so right off, let's note that there's still uncertainty on this. The state oil and gas agency SOCAR first reported it as a mud volcano eruption. But many reports doubt this and say it may be a fire from a rig or platform, possibly an old one.

May 22, 2020 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
#MudVolcanoOfTheDay (#156) is Paternò mud volcano in Sicily, Italy.

No, not that huge mountain – that’s the volcano Etna.

Paternò is the grey area marked by a red pin, which sits right at the base of Etna. However, there are suggestions of a possible link between the two…. The Paternò mud volcano is located right on the NW edge of the large town of Paternò in eastern Sicily, and ~21km south of the summit of Etna.
goo.gl/maps/gF3qJsw2d…

The MV is on a small hill, right next to a velodrome named for this ‘Salinelle’
Mar 6, 2020 • 47 tweets • 16 min read
Fun Geo-Thread: A Lithological Classification Scheme for Cakes and Pastries Geologists love rocks. Geologists love food. No field trip in Australia is ever really complete without a stop at a country bakery to fuel up on sweet and savoury baked treats.
Oct 11, 2019 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
Feeling vindicated by a new paper on the Lusi mud volcano disaster in Marine & Petroleum Geology.

This is not your usual geoscience paper! The author is a Professor of English – and you do not often see geoscience papers that are written like this one!

Thread… First, a bit of history.

Lusi, or Lumpur Sidoarjo, is a unique disaster that I have covered quite a lot, most recently as part of the #MudVolcanoOfTheDay series here:

May 29, 2019 • 32 tweets • 13 min read
On this day in 2006, the 'Lusi' Mud Volcano was born. This was the start of the worst mud volcano disaster in history. A truly unique tragedy.

Lusi is today's #MudVolcanoOfTheDay & the third thread in the #MuddyMay 'Mud Volcano Disasters' series.

Video courtesy of @Greenpeace The Lusi mud volcano was born before dawn on the 29th May 2006. Hot mud started gushing out of a new hole in the ground in a rice paddy in the town of Sidoarjo.

At rates of ~5000 cubic meters per day, the mud quickly started to flood nearby lands.
May 18, 2019 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Today's #MudVolcanoOfTheDay is the Qarnyarq Mud Volcano in NE Iran. Short thread on an unusual looking mud volcano that looks kinda like a meteor crater!

#MuddyMay Qarnyarq mud volcano is located In Iran, near the border with Turkmenistan and near the Caspian Sea. You can find it here:
goo.gl/maps/Scihh1y15…
Apr 5, 2019 • 28 tweets • 10 min read
Long Thread:

Geology is an utter mystery to many, largely because geologists insist on using a ridiculous amount of terminology.

It’s time to Demystify Structural Geology!

Presenting new, simplified & realistic terminology to bring Structural Geology to all!

#DemystifyGeology Structural Geos just love big fancy words, like ‘fault’ & ‘fold’, mostly because we think they make us sound cooler at the few parties we get invited to.

But how can others possibly hope to ever understand such complicated terms?

Fear not! This will never be a problem again!
Feb 23, 2019 • 62 tweets • 18 min read
Off to see a mud volcano, about 40km south of Miri in Sarawak, NW Borneo.

I’ll try to live tweet as much as possible! I’m absolutely crazy in love with mud volcanoes (MVs)! So, I’m super excited! I’ve not been to this MV before and it’s been 7 years since I’ve gotten to a MV.

As a good family geologist. I’m dragging along my wife and 6yo son, Morgan.

They do not share my enthusiasm...
Aug 20, 2018 • 25 tweets • 11 min read
Sorry @GWrightsone, but when you ignore large parts of evidence & data, your claims cease being 'facts', and become blatant cherry picking.

Wrightstone refuses to respond to criticisms of his claims. So, here's a big thread on his recent @AAPG Explorer article. @AAPGPresident He claims that “climate models over predict warming … by 2.5 to 3 times too much”. Really? Lets look at the famous 30yr old model by Hansen. Predicted radiative forcing 1.1W/m2 – observed 1.05W/m2. V Accurate. Predicted temp increases and locations are a remarkable match too!