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A pool of mud boils near Dallol Volcano, located in Ethiopia’s remote Danakil Depression. Volcanic explosion craters such as Dallol form during phreatic eruptions—where rising magma comes into contact with water beneath the surface of the Earth, causing a steam explosion. Photograph by Carsten Peter