The Taman Peninsula has many unique natural treasures. One of the natural riches can rightly be called the mud volcanoes of the Sea of Azov. Mostly volcanic emissions occur peacefully and quietly, although some mud volcanoes erupt quite violently and noisily, with their explosions they resemble ordinary volcanoes that expel columns of smoke and dust, gases (methane, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen and hydrogen sulfide) ) and mud flows.
Mud attractions of the Sea of Azov
Mud volcanoes on the Sea of Azov are a rather rare natural phenomenon. At great depths, processes of compression of the earth's masses of a certain composition occur under decent pressure, which is sometimes so strong that a certain amount of volcanic rock comes out. Due to its beneficial properties, mud bathing is a fairly common activity.
Recently, a mud volcano on the Sea of Azov is becoming increasingly popular. Tourists are increasingly choosing this direction, as excursions to mud springs are a great chance not only to get better, but also to have a great time on the coast of the warmest and shallowest sea.
What are mud volcanoes?
The mud volcanoes of the Sea of Azov, located on the territory of the mainland, have undergone a fairly thorough study. They are elevations in their shape resembling a cone. There are also completely flat, with hollows in the form of funnels. Under a certain pressure, a mud mass begins to come out of them, sometimes together with water and accumulated gases, which from a random spark can even ignite and look like volcanoes that spew lava.
The mud volcano on the Sea of Azov (photo below) is a geological formation. Similar volcanoes can be found on the Crimean peninsula, the Arabat Spit, but their main focus is located on the Taman Peninsula. An interesting fact is that it is simply impossible to drown in such a mud spring: due to its special composition, healing clay simply pushes everyone who has fallen into it onto the surface.
Tizdar Volcano: a great place for lovers to get dirty with health benefits
Among the hundreds of volcanoes located on the peninsula, the most popular is Tizdar in the village of Za Rodina. It is a hollow filled with useful mud with healing properties. It contains a large amount of hydrogen sulfide, bromine and iodine. Vacationers from Anapa, as well as other resort places on the shores of the Sea of Azov, are given an excellent opportunity to take therapeutic mud baths to improve skin condition and improve their health.
Before taking a mud bath, you should consult your doctor just in case, although side effects are minimized. Since it is impossible to scoop up dirt from the crater, those who want to take some with themselves easily manage to collect precious mass from their body after bathing. Sometimes it is possible to collect up to two kilograms. Nearby, at a distance of 50 meters, is the Sea of Azov, where you can swim after a treatment procedure.
Hephaestus Volcano on the Sea of Azov
The mud volcano on the Sea of Azov, which is called Hephaestus, is also very popular. It is located on the Kuban lands, in the village of Golubitskaya. It is also called Rotten Mountain. One of the volcanoes of the Taman Peninsula is located near the resort town of Temryuk.
Like many others, this therapeutic mud volcano on the Sea of Azov was formed in the first decades of the 20th century at the place where the lake used to be. Volcanic mud contains many useful elements, among which there is a lot of bromine, selenium and iodine. Hephaestus is now an active volcano, after one of the eruptions, a mud clinic was destroyed.
Other mud volcanoes of the Taman Peninsula
The current and largest mud volcano on the Sea of Azov and the entire Taman Peninsula is the so-called Karabetova Sopka. Outwardly, it resembles a hill with a hole in the form of a crater. Surrounded by a mud volcano are many ravines and stones. It erupts very noisily, a roar is heard at a decent distance. In addition to mud, a mud volcano throws out pillars of steam, smoke, fire, dirt and stones.
In the vicinity of the village of Peresyp there is a mud volcano on the Sea of Azov Akhtanizovskaya Sopka. Its peculiarity is that the mud from this large-sized volcano comes out not only from the craters, but also from soil cracks and faults. There are also volcanic formations on the Kerch peninsula, where in the village of Bondarenkovo a huge field of volcanoes of different shapes and sizes extends (Bulganak hills, as well as many others).
Mud volcanoes - this phenomenon is quite interesting, except for terrestrial there are also underwater ones that settled on the seabed. So, the emissions of one of them (in the vicinity of the village of Golubitskaya) formed a whole mud island with a diameter of about 100 meters and a two-meter high. However, several months later it was washed out by the waters of the Sea of Azov.