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A trio of scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Université de Lyon, and Arizona State University, respectively, has found that a likely reason flat pancake-like volcanoes form on Venus' ...

India's mud volcanoes are mostly found in the northeastern part of the country, particularly in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh .