Experts set for Cape Town
Vexing Mud Flow Cause Disputed
Considering the story is and has been about mud, it’s a remarkably clear (if somewhat contentious) debate.
And it’s a debate that’s been going on ever since mud started spewing from the ground like a gusher more than two years ago.
On May 29, 2006, on the eastern tip of the island of Java in Indonesia, a giant mud volcano erupted, filling the region with a noxious mix of mud, chemicals and, some would say, mendacity. Even before the mud started swallowing up homes and farms and railroad tracks, the questions were being asked.
The devastating Lusi mud volcano continues to take a tragic toll in eastern Java.
Photos courtesy of Richard Davies/Environmental Geology
Not “why” so much, but “how” and “who.”
John Snedden, an AAPG member who’s a reservoir connectivity prediction supervisor with ExxonMobil, wants to begin to answer those questions; so during the October AAPG International Conference and Exhibition in Cape Town, South Africa, he is putting together a symposium on what caused the disaster – natural or otherwise – now known as Lusi (from lumpur, the Indonesian word for mud). Baca entri selengkapnya »