Mud volcano Ayrantokan

Mud volcano is situated 65 km south-west off Baku and 4.5 km north-east off Atbulag station to represent an elongated elevation with relative height of 190m. In term of morphology the mud volcano looks like a plateau. Mud breccias outburst for the period of time spanning 1964 to 1990 flowed down the south slop. Most extensive 200m-wide mud breccias lobes are extended down the slope over 1.5 km flowed into the low land were outburst while 1964 eruption. There are 4 groups of mud breccias occurrences within the plateau, one of which located within south-west part of the structure is typified by oil seeping gryphons.

The other quite large group of cones and gryphons is located north-west off mud volcano recent crater is characterized by numerous active microforms where cone height reaches 5-10m high. There are several 2-3m deep large fractures around the crater field extended up to 700-800m long. Crumbled mud breccias can be seen within the center of the crater. Total amount of outburst breccias amounts to 500M cu m. which covered the area around 805 he.