The Watchers - 2/17/13, By Chillymanjaro
Alexander Belousov and Marina Belousova, researchers at Russia’s Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, lowered a camera into six geysers in the famed Valley of the Geysers on Russia’s volcanic Kamchatka Peninsula. The results provide a new model for understanding how geysers work (The study was published online January 25 in the journal Geology).
The videos, combined with studies of rocks surrounding extinct geysers, revealed that the Kamchatka geysers aren’t fed by long, narrow tubes, as once thought. Bubble traps form between jumbled boulders deposited by landslides. The videos show boulders and burbling bubbles while the geyser rests, then bursts of steam during fountaining eruptions.
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