An Overview of Mud Volcanoes Associated to Gas Hydrate System
Journal: InTech eBooks
Year: 2012

Humankind has been aware of volcanic activity in this planet since ancient times. This can be inferred from the remains of human settlements giving evidence of destruction by vol‐ canic activity, and by the many myths around the world describing events that can be inter‐ preted in relation to volcanic eruptions. Furthermore, such occurrences are evidenced by the special words that some human groups created to designate the special cases of “fire moun‐ tains”, thus distinguishing these from other