The Kumani Bank mud volcano in the Caspian Sea created an island in early 2023 ... using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. We like to think of land as a fairly static thing ...

The eruptions, although unpredictable, offer a unique window into deep geological processes. The ghost island of the Caspian Sea reminds us that the Earth is constantly evolving. These events, ...

The Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland body of ... This process occasionally forms temporary geological structures, like the one NASA observed. Kumani Bank is not a new discovery.

Mud volcanoes are geological formations that erupt a mixture ... with over 300 mud volcanoes recorded both on land and in the Caspian Sea. The high density is primarily due to the convergence ...

off the coast of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea. The NASA Earth Observatory has released a series of images taken with the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and OLI-2 instruments on the Landsat 8 and 9 ...

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A mysterious island appeared in the Caspian Sea, only to vanish within months, leaving scientists baffled. NASA satellites captured its sudden rise and fall, sparking questions about Earth’s shifting ...

As previously reported, Turkmenneft drilled the first exploratory well at the Uzynada field in May 2017, reaching a depth of 7,150 meters. At that time, the well yielded a commercial flow of 200 ...

The State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has launched aerogravimetric research in the onshore area for the first time, in collaboration with the renowned British company Metatek.

The location of Kumani Bank in the Caspian sea off the coast of Azerbaijan. (NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the US Geological Survey) "A new island suddenly ...