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Generally all geyser field sites are located near active volcanic areas, and the geyser effect is due to the proximity of magma.
: The water that is ejected from a geyser must travel underground through deep, pressurized fissures in the Earth's crust.
: In order for the heated water to form a geyser, a plumbing system is required.
Streaks on Triton's surface left by geyser plumes suggest that the troposphere is driven by seasonal winds capable of moving material of over a micrometre in size.
Nickelodeon's former studios in Orlando had a green slime geyser and green slime is still dumped on the host of the annual Kids Choice Awards at the end of the ceremony, and on at least one celebrity during the ceremony.
J. Audubon Woodlore is the park ranger of Brownstone National Park ( a play on Yellowstone National Park ), one of the features of which is a geyser named " Old Fateful " ( a play on Old Faithful ).
Lakeview is also known for the hot water geyser, Old Perpetual, located at Hunter's Hot Springs.
Crystal Geyser, a cold water " geyser "--- actually a carbon-dioxide driven, erupting well --- is located about nine miles southeast of town ( Glennon, J. A.
Old Faithful is a cone geyser located in Wyoming, in Yellowstone National Park in the United States.
The geyser, as well as the nearby Old Faithful Inn, is part of the Old Faithful Historic District.
Old Faithful is not the tallest or largest geyser in the park ; that title belongs to the less predictable Steamboat Geyser.
The West Thumb Geyser Basin, including Potts Basin to the north, is the largest geyser basin on the shores of Yellowstone Lake.
Perhaps the most famous hydrothermal feature at West Thumb is a geyser on the lake shore known as Fishing Cone.
Fishing at the geyser is now prohibited.
Geysir (), sometimes known as The Great Geysir, is a geyser in southwestern Iceland.
Geysir lies in the Haukadalur valley on the slopes of Laugarfjall hill, which is also the home to Strokkur geyser about 50 metres south.
Strokkur ( Icelandic for " churn ") is a fountain geyser in the geothermal area beside the Hvítá River in Iceland in the southwest part of the country, east of Reykjavik.
Strokkur and its surrounding areas regularly attracts tourists to view the geyser, as it is one of very few natural geysers to erupt frequently and reliably.
Steamboat Geyser, in Yellowstone National Park's Norris Geyser Basin, is the world's tallest currently-active geyser.
During starship preparations, the geyser region is cleared, and the frozen bodies are discovered.
Located in the southeast corner of the park, Terminal Geyser is not actually a geyser, but rather a cold stream flowing over a steam vent.
In terrestrial hydrothermal systems the majority of water circulated within the fumarole and geyser systems is meteoric water plus ground water that has percolated down into the thermal system from the surface, but it also commonly contains some portion of metamorphic water, magmatic water, and sedimentary formational brine that is released by the magma.

geyser and spring
The word geyser comes from Geysir, the name of an erupting spring at Haukadalur, Iceland ; that name, in turn, comes from the Icelandic verb geysa, " to gush ", the verb itself from Old Norse.
The English word geyser ( a spouting hot spring ) derives from Geysir.
Cistern Spring, located nearby, will drain completely during a major eruption of the geyser ; the spring refills within a few days.
Named " the geyser " after an Icelandic gushing hot spring, Maughan's invention had cold water at the top flowing through wires which were heated by hot gases from a burner at the bottom.
In 1870 the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition visited the spring, noting a geyser nearby ( later named Excelsior ).
The story opens with a bang and a splash: an underground spring erupts in a geyser that blasts Mandy into the sky.
In 1996, seismic activity caused to change from a bubbling spring into an explosive geyser.

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After an oil drilling operation in 1903 in Dexter, Kansas, produced a gas geyser that would not burn, Kansas state geologist Erasmus Haworth collected samples of the escaping gas and took them back to the University of Kansas at Lawrence where, with the help of chemists Hamilton Cady and David McFarland, he discovered that the gas consisted of, by volume, 72 % nitrogen, 15 % methane ( a combustible percentage only with sufficient oxygen ), 1 % hydrogen, and 12 % an unidentifiable gas.
Each eruption of a Triton geyser may last up to a year, driven by the sublimation of about of nitrogen ice over this interval ; dust entrained may be deposited up to 150 km downwind in visible streaks, and perhaps much farther in more diffuse deposits.
( 2006 ) suggest that the geyser activity in the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus originates from clathrate hydrates, where carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen are released when exposed to the vacuum of space by the " Tiger Stripe " fractures found in that area.
The Sports Complex was designed and founded by resident Steve Johnson and includes one baseball diamond, two softball diamonds, a golf course, a swimming pool, skydiving cliff, snorkeling pools, a geyser, concession stand, and a walking track.
The geyser has not erupted since June 2009, possibly in part because of controversial nearby geothermal development by the Town of Lakeview to supply the Warner Creek Correctional Facility with water for heating., Additional development of the site for geothermal power generation purposes may further threaten the hot springs.
Signs of the forces of erosion can be seen everywhere, from runoff channels carved across the sinter in the geyser basins to the drainage created by the Firehole River.
In 1846 the research of Geysir by Robert Bunsen results with the explanation of the mechanism of geyser activity.
The best time to see them is at sunrise when each geyser is surmounted by a column of steam that condenses in the bitterly cold morning air.
The idea has recently been revived by the Chilean government and is meeting with heavy public resistance due to the touristic value the geyser field represents.
In 1919, geologists noted a lake covering a large part of the caldera floor, but by 1923 the lake was gone and numerous fumaroles, mud pots, and a large mud geyser had replaced it.
She believes Bill's stories when her bathroom is destroyed by a geyser of blood that he helps clean up before her father gets home.
The geyser was named by the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871.
) cold-water geyser, driven by carbon dioxide with force generated in a fashion similar to that in a shaken bottle of table water.
The water expelled by the geyser was black with rocks and mud from the surrounding terrain, so the indigenous Māori people named the geyser Waimangu, meaning ' Black Waters '.
The volcanic activity continues as the surface temperature in the core ranges from 100 to 600 ° C at the depth of, which is demonstrated by pouring water into the ground, resulting in a geyser of steam which is an attraction for tourists.
Located indoors in Nashville, Tennessee under a glass dome at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, this musical fountain features an 85-foot high center geyser surrounded by 68 vertical and 28 arching jets, each with its own RGB LED fixture, plus a fog system and 5 articulating color theatrical lights from above.
While inspecting a dinosaur skeleton, Speedy is blown by a geyser into the air.
The current form of the geyser was created by an exploration well drilled in 1935 in attempt to locate oil.

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