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This chapter deals with the curative mud resources of salty lakes and mud volcanoes in Crimea Peninsula. There are unique resources of salt lakes brine, salts, curative muds, as well as mineral and thermal water. The medicinal potential of salt lakes of Crimea is very high in which there are 35 salt lakes and 33 mud volcanoes within Kerch Peninsula. Most of the lakes of the Crimea are of marine origin with a permanent infiltration of water from the sea. They are sulphatic type. Total capacity of mud deposits of the Crimea is estimated at about 32,279 mln m3.
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Faculty of Hydrogeology, Department of Geology, University of St. Petersburg, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, St. Petersburg, Russia, 199034
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Kayukova, E. (2014). Resources of Curative Mud of the Crimea Peninsula. In: Balderer, W., Porowski, A., Idris, H., LaMoreaux, J. (eds) Thermal and Mineral Waters. Environmental Earth Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28824-1_6
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