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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.
A longer look showed him that the drawing was actually the Old Faithful geyser.
Old Faithful was named in 1870 during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition and was the first geyser in the park to receive a name.
The first geyser they saw was Old Faithful.
The boat dock was located near the south end of the geyser basin near Lakeside Spring.
It was the first geyser described in a printed source and the first known to modern Europeans.
In 1935 a manmade channel was dug through the silica rim around the edge of the geyser vent.
Strokkur was first mentioned in 1789, after an earthquake unblocked the conduit of the geyser.
The geyser was dormant from 1911 to 1961.
In Florence there was a predilection for having many small thin elegant jets of water, even when there was enough water to have a large geyser.
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.
The explosion sent a geyser of water in the air ; the blast was felt as far away as Princeton, New Jersey.
The canyon below the Lower Yellowstone Falls was at one time the site of a geyser basin that was the result of rhyolite lava flows, extensive faulting, and heat beneath the surface ( related to the hot spot ).
No one is sure exactly when the geyser basin was formed in the area, although it was probably present at the time of the last glaciation.
When the old geyser basin was active, the " cooking " of the rock caused chemical alterations in these iron compounds.
A gravely ill Isis saves Adam from Death using her powers to send Death into the sky with a geyser of lava, and tells Adam with her dying breaths that she was wrong to try to change his views on justice, and that he should avenge both her and Osiris.
His attack took so long to charge Diver was able to ruin it with a water geyser.
When the geyser was given this name in 1870, the top edges of the structure resembled the typical profile associated with the modern concept of a castle, having the appearance of a large keep, multiple turrets, and especially because of the crenellation along the top edges of what resembled its towers.
Colter reportedly visited at least one geyser basin, though it is now believed that he most likely was near present-day Cody, Wyoming, which at that time may have had some geothermal activity to the immediate west .< ref name =" NPS ">
This was evacuated when a geyser of lava erupted out of San Vicente Boulevard, threatening the structure and its occupants.

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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 ).
Three mountain peaks, including Mount Norris, one geyser basin, and one pass in Yellowstone are named after Norris.
The centerpiece of the park is " Miss Tilly ," a shrimp boat impaled upon a mountain named " Mount Mayday " that erupts a geyser of water every half hour, right before the bells of the watch sound on Miss Tilly.
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 '.
In 1870 the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition visited the spring, noting a geyser nearby ( later named Excelsior ).
Dr. A. C. Peale named the geyser in 1872.
The geyser is named for a fine mist resembling the spray from an atomizer that is ejected during major eruptions.
Bead Geyser was named after the geyser eggs, loose spherical pieces of geyserite, that used to be found near the geyser.
This geyser, named Beehive's Indicator, sends up a fountain between a few seconds and 30 minutes before Beehive erupts, averaging 15 to 20 minutes prior.

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A geyser (; ) is a spring characterized by intermittent discharge of water ejected turbulently and accompanied by a vapour phase ( steam ).
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
) cold-water geyser, driven by carbon dioxide with force generated in a fashion similar to that in a shaken bottle of table water.
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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