So I’m out checking cattle today and smell sulfur. I start heading upwind and the horse looses it mind and I hear loud bubbling. I go on foot aways further and find this?
Pretty good size little volcano kinda deal gurgling up hot mud. Texas coast area. No pipelines or active wells for at least 1.5miles any direction.
I have 2 videos I took of it bubbling and gurgling and the ground all around it was like walking on a waterbed. The water is HOT. I don’t know how to post the videos.
Strange stuff I thought only happened in Yellowstone park.
Not the same thing But I have seen smaller ones in the west side of SLC Utah growing up. When my parents found out where we were going they forbid us to go back to that area of town.
As per my parents there was an old dump in that area many years before I was born. It caught on fire and they bulldozed it over trying to smother the fire.
And years latter it was still burning underground and was creating these smudge pot type smoking bubbling hot holes all over the area.
They would not let anyone build on that area and there was a trucking outfit that built right up to it. The truckers would toss their used pop bottles over the fence and us kids would go there and collect up the bottle for spendin money.
We heard of a kid falling into one of those holes and he got burned up pretty good.
You’ll know it’s not good when it looks like this one:
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We have lots of hot springs across southern Idaho, literally hundreds of them. Some are out in the lava fields, some are in the high mountains. Some are large enough to have been developed for spas, home heating, and geothermal power generation.
suggestion: look into filing a water right on it if no one else has done it. That hot water can be valuable.
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You may want to get an actual geologist to check that out. It might be something as simple as an ancient hot spring coming back to life or the precursor to something bigger. A quick googlefoo and I didn't see any hot springs in that area of Texas so at first glance it looks like a anomaly, and that could be a problem. You might want to be careful carousing around that area as well and maybe temporarily fence it off to keep the cows out of there. That Sulphur smell can be associated with hydrogen sulfide which can be deadly in high enough concentrations.
Keep us updated and post more pics.
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I would get someone on the ground there pronto, and stay away from it! Could be many things, H2S may be volcanic but may be rotting organic matter, oxidizing sulphur etc.
Hard to tell without being there and also looking at local maps etc.
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