Dashgil Field Trip

Third international conference on Geology of the Caspian Sea and Adjacent Areas Field Trip

The Third international conference on Geology of the Caspian Sea and Adjacent Areas in Baku will include an exciting a geological field-trip to the famous Kirmaki valley with Pliocene rock outcrops and to mud volcanoes and Paleocene rocks outcrops.

The field-trip is set to take place on the last day of the conference, the 18th of October 2019. 

Field-trip registration and payment can be made onsite. Check with the organizers!

Dashgil Field Trip

Mud volcanoes are generated by periodic expulsion of mixtures of water, gas and solids from the earth interior. They provide important information about geotectonic, geochemical and thermobaric processes acting in subsurface and have geological relationship with the nearby oil and gas fields. The territory of Azerbaijan is a unique and classical example of the area with developed mud volcanoes. About 400 of 800 mud volcanoes known in the world are located within the borders of the South-Caspian oil-gas basin where all forms of mud volcanic activity can be observed (active, extinct, buried, underwater, isle, petroleum volcanoes). The participants will visit Dashgil Mud Volcano located 60km to the SW of Baku and observe active salses and gryphons.

Instructor: Vugar Ismayilov – Geologist (BP)