1459. Mud volcanoes and volcanic mud (1)
The fallen pebbles were not big, and they were originally traversing the earth wall. After Jiang Caoqi kicked off the stone, his entire foot passed through the earth wall and entered the yard, and his ankles and calves were stuck in the earth hole.
He pulled it backwards, but it didn't pull it out in one go.
Seeing this, he wanted to work hard, but the earth wall was too fragile now. As his thighs exerted force, the nearby earth walls began to shake.
Ao Muyang hurriedly said, "Don't move, be careful."
Jiang Caoqi was stunned and said, "I want to be careful, but my foot is stuck and I can't pull it out."
Ao Muyang said: "You take your time. If you can kick it in, you won't be able to pull it out?"
Jiang Caoqi slowly pulled out, but still couldn't pull out his feet. He stretched in, turned his ankle and then adjusted his direction and pulled out, but still couldn't pull out.
After repeated several times, he changed his posture, but he could not pull out his feet without destroying the earth wall.
Someone on the street was watching this scene curiously. Seeing Jiang Caoqi twitching and changing positions, he walked over and asked curiously: "Village Chief, what are this brother doing? Are you on the Sun Wall?"
After hearing this, Ao Muyang couldn't help laughing: "Haha."
Jiang Cao's face was tender. In anger, he pulled his feet back hard, and pulled out a large piece of mud.
Ao Muyang got angry and said, "What are you doing?"
Jiang Caoqi said: "This wall must be pushed down and rebuilt."
"Get out, don't even think about it." Ao Muyang said angrily, "I want to cultivate it into its most primitive appearance, maintain its original appearance, and maintain the appearance in my memory."
Jiang Cao put his hands down and said, "Okay, okay, don't be angry, then I will publish a design draft to help you keep your memory like you are quite nostalgic."
Ao Muyang wanted to keep the original appearance of the old house, not only nostalgic. There were not many old houses in the village. He wanted to preserve the house well and show the environment where the fishermen's ancestors lived in the future.
The last time the old house was repaired, the roof was repaired, and the courtyard wall did not move.
This courtyard wall is even more difficult to repair because the materials it uses are very special. It is made of undersea volcanic mud, mixed with clay, sand, gravel, and salt powder.
You should know that the fisherman's area is windy and rainy, and the main body of the house and the courtyard wall are made of soil, it must be because the soil can resist wind and rain.
In fact, the wall made by volcanic mud mixed with clay, sand and gravel is very strong. After exposure to the sun for a summer, it can withstand wind and rain for many years.
The old house of Ao Muyang's family is old, at least fifty years old. It was built by his grandfather's generation and has been used until now.
If it weren't for him leaving home for five years, which led to the rapid damage of the old house without anyone taking care of him and no popularity, then the courtyard wall could have lasted for a few more years.
After hearing Ao Muyang's introduction, Jiang Caoqi was shocked: "The old houses in your village are all built of volcanic mud? This is amazing. What about the traditional buildings of Hongyang fishermen's families? Then I have to remember them quickly."
Ao Muyang said: "Remember again, now I will think about how to help me repair the house."
Jiang Caoqi said: "The courtyard wall is no longer solid now. If you don't want to push it down and rebuild it, you can only reinforce it outside. This requires volcanic mud, so where can you find volcanic mud?"
Speaking of this, he frowned and said, "I still find so much volcanic mud in your village before? There are volcanoes here in Hongyang?"
Ao Muyang said: "It's not the kind of volcano you understand, it's a mud volcano, do you know?"
Jiang Caoqi nodded and said, "Milt Volcano? Leng Volcano, right? I know this."
Mud volcanoes are not the same as real volcanoes. Volcanoes can erupt magma, with high temperatures and strong destructive power. Mud volcanoes are formed by spewing mud and gas out of the ground at the same time and then accumulate. On land, its appearance is mostly conical or pot-shaped, and there are often depressions at the tip of the hill, and mud and gas are sprayed intermittently.
Like a real volcano, it can also spit fire, but someone needs to ignite it. The gas it sprays contains methane, biogas, and hydrogen sulfide, and some of it can be ignited.
But under natural circumstances, it will not burn, so the mud sprayed is cold, also known as cold volcano.
Jiang Caoqi continued: "I remember well that the formation mechanisms of mud volcanoes mainly include earthquake eruptions, the junction state and gas content of deep sediments, fault activity, and artificial drilling. Are these? Do you have one here?"
Ao Muyang scratched his nose and said, "I don't understand what you said very much, but there is indeed a mud volcano here. I'll take you to the sea to see it."
Jiang Caoqi asked in surprise: "Milt volcano under the sea?"
Ao Muyang said, "Yes, what's wrong?"
Jiang Caoqi said: "No, I'm just curious. There is actually a mud volcano at the seabed in Hongyang Bay, which is quite rare. No, there is mudstone layer at the bottom of Hongyang Bay. As long as there are fault paths on the bottom of the seabed and natural gas surges up, mud volcanoes can appear, right?"
Ao Muyang said blankly: "This, shouldn't it? Anyway, there are indeed many mud volcanoes in my sea area. It's a reef area. If you are lucky, you can see mud sprayed out like a fountain when the tide is low."
The mud volcano area is still fifteen or sixteen kilometers away from Longtou Village. It is located in the ocean just south of the town pier. It was the earliest record in 1722. Since then, mud has been pouring out intermittently for many years.
Jiang Caoqi was quite interested in this. He found a related introduction in the online library, saying that "On July 1st of Renyin, when the boat arrived at the reefs, black mud gushed out. By the night of the next day, fire was light, which was more than meter high, and the heat was burning, and most of them dared not approach it. However, the fire left and left the mud, the color was red and the light was not shining, and the wet place was like black mud, and it was dry, which was no different from the soil. Although it was fried according to the method, it had no sulfonic smell."
Mud volcanoes generally do not spontaneously burn. The record says that they saw firelight. That was because someone was watching lanterns at night, and the combustible gases were ignited by the candlelight in the lantern.
At that time, those people were lucky and there were no casualties. Later, people went to inspect the mud volcano, but many people were killed due to ignition.
Therefore, both large ships and small boats have always sailed around that area of sea. Except for people who build houses by the sea to get volcanic mud, people will not look for it at other times.
In mid-August, Ao Muyang drove a sea fishing boat and drove a wooden boat into the mud volcanic sea area.
He has never been to that place, but there are marked on the map, so it is not difficult to find.
There is a name in the sea, called Moon Sea. It is said that because the mud water sprayed by mud volcanoes contains some fluorescent substances, they merge into the surrounding reefs. Whenever the tide is low, the seabed is exposed and the moonlight shines. The exposed reefs will emit gray and white colors, just like the surface of the moon.
Heading towards the Moon Sea, the sea fishing boat set out. After almost approaching the sea area, Ao Muyang decisively broke down and then changed to a rowing wooden boat and sailed over.
Chapter completed!