mud pot

mud pot
   A type of hot spring containing boiling mud, usually sulfurous and often multicolored, as in a paint pot. Mud pots are commonly associated with geysers and other hot springs in volcanic areas, especially in Yellowstone Natl. Park, WY.
   Compare: geyser, hot spring.
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Glossary of landform and geologic terms. 2013.

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