Research in this area has focused on understanding the geological and hydrological evolution of the Caspian Sea, the factors driving its level variations, and the implications of these changes for ...

A new US Department of Energy survey provides updated data on oil & natural gas production in the CaspianBasin. It shows that ...

The Caspian Sea, currently facing threats, has been in the news for a different reason: the emergence and subsequent ...

This phenomenon highlights the dynamic nature of mud volcanoes and their impact on geology. Image source: NASA A rare and mysterious feature has recently appeared in the Caspian Sea. The temporary ...

A transient “ghost island”, born from a mud volcano eruption in the Caspian Sea, has captivated researchers ... Tingay in a recent seminar for the Geological Society of Australia.

Last month, an 18th-century 28-meter wooden shipwreck was discovered off the Mazandaran coast of the Caspian Sea in southern Iran. Operating under Russian influence, the ship likely comprised part ...

The phantom landmass had emerged in the Caspian Sea following the 2023 eruption ... said geologist Mark Tingay in a seminar for the Geological Society of Australia.

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 ...

Earth Observatory image The Caspian Sea covers 143,200 square miles between ... majors in journalism and art history, and a minor in geology.

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 ...

But the reality is land is always changing — perhaps nowhere more so than at the Kumani Bank mud volcano, also known as Chigil-Deniz, some 15 miles (25 km) off the coast of Azerbaijan in the Caspian ...