Mud Volcano Devils’ Woodyard Trinidad 346

Abstract

This is a close-up view of a mud volcano at the Devil’s Woodyard, Hindustan, near Princes Town, Trinidad, showing a soft mixture of earth at the centre of this cracked dry mud with two little conical, volcano-shapes behind it. The phrase "mud-volcano" commonly applies to a relatively violent eruption or surfaces extrusion of watery mud or clay which is almost always accompanied by methane gas, and which generally tends to build up a solid mud or clay deposit around its orifice which may have a conical or volcano-like shape. This postcard has two numbers, No. 6 and 346.