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Life Sciences => The Environment => Topic started by: Hadrian on 15/09/2006 18:57:07

Title: What is this "grey ooze" eating Indonesian villages?
Post by: Hadrian on 15/09/2006 18:57:07

September 9, 2006 LAtimes.com

For more than three months, the hot, noxious goop has spewed up through a crack in the earth at a natural-gas exploration site, swamping everything in its path.

The expanding, surreal gray lake with the stench of rotten eggs has enveloped more than 10 square miles of land in eastern Java, Indonesia's most densely populated island. The flow has forced 8,000 to 10,000 people from their homes, engulfed about a dozen factories, contaminated fish farms and intermittently closed a major highway.

More: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-javamud9sep09,0,5424952.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Title: Re: What is this "grey ooze" eating Indonesian villages?
Post by: Atomic-S on 17/10/2006 07:29:24

wierd

Title: Re: What is this "grey ooze" eating Indonesian villages?
Post by: science_guy on 17/10/2006 16:30:39

that just about describes it.

I believe it was from a volcanic vent (volcanoes sometimes spew hot mud) Which would also explain the rotten egg smell (sulpher).

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Title: Re: What is this "grey ooze" eating Indonesian villages?
Post by: Monox D. I-Fly on 02/05/2019 03:40:43

Is this the Lapindo case where the mud leaked from the pipes? Did it take place in Sidoarjo?