[Geysers] RE: Dolena Geizerov web site

[Kory Collier]

from Kory Collier (kory at mstar.net)

Spencer Johnson is a nephew of mine who, like me, doesn't make it to 
Yellowstone very often but is an intense gazer when he does.  He speaks 
fluent Russian, so I referred him to the Dolena Geizerov web site.  Because 
of the size of the site (and because he's a busy college student nearing the 
end of a semester), the translations/comments he sent me are mainly from 
just the home page, though he did say he might be able to do more 
translation/summary in the future if there are parts of the site that 
someone is particularly interested in learning more about.  He didn't take 
the time to investigate words he didn't know (many of which are probably 
technical in nature), but he did Romanize those words [in brackets].  I 
appreciated his directions to find the videos of Velikan and Troinoi---those 
are definitely a highlight---because I probably wouldn't have found them 
otherwise.  Here's what he sent me:

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Starting from the bold-ish title at the top:

Creation of the center of collective use for the study and monitoring of the 
unique natural [obyekta] - the Valley of geysers

Everything you wanted to know:

- Information about the project
   o Fundamental goals and work
   o Participants of the project
- General vision of the Valley of gesers
   o Geographic layout
   o Chronicle of [osvoyeniya] and study
- [rezhim] of the geysers
   o Methodical [osnovi] of registration of the parameters of the [rezhim]
   o ?? Potential registration of communicative lines on the geyser Troinoi 
??
(That doesn't make much sense to me - this is referring to that graph you 
see if you click on the link - it has that exact same line as the title to 
the graph.)
   o Characteristics of the sites of registration
   o Technical characteristics of the [complekt] apparatus
   o Download results of the registration of the parameters of the [rezhim]
- Learning discussion
   o Questions and work discussions
   o Model of the geyser process
     o [Skvazhinnaya] model (following this link is a lot of text that 
seemed to explain what makes a geyser erupt - water heating up to 
higher-than-boiling temperatures, something about the water going up and 
then pressure being released, then it obtains maximum something-or-other, 
then goes back down again)
     o [Kamernaya] model (if you follow the link, the drawings pretty much 
explain what the text is saying.  This appears to be from something to do 
with New Zealand)
     o Model of mixing (seems to be showing what happens when a geyser has 
two water sources - one cold and one hot)
- Excursions
   o Giant Geyser (In Russian, Giant is pronounced "velikAN."  This page 
describes Giant's activity, including that it goes as high as several tens 
of meters.  It also seems to describe what happens to it before and after an 
eruption, including that the water level drops about 1.5 meters.  It 
mentions the colors - brownish, some getting on to pinkish, and several 
yellowish tones, and specifically says that the geyserite is yellowish-gray)
   o Troinoi Geyser (Same kind of stuff as with Giant.  On the map, you can 
see Troinoi.  Across the river are "Sugary" and right below it "Neighbor."  
Next to the map, the graph's first column is "beginning of eruption," then 
"between eruptions," followed by "period of production" and "period of 
peace.")

***NOTE: On both the Giant page and the Troinoi page, you can click the link 
to the left of the DivX Icon to see videos of the geysers erupting.  I 
haven't seen Yellowstone's Giant or Russia's Giant in person, but now at 
least I've seen Russia's Giant on video!

- Library
   o Literature on this theme
   o About geysers on the internet
   o About the book by T. I. Ustanovoi "Geysers of Kamchatka" (I think this 
book is referenced on the website at least one other time)
- Download (These are the same things you can download on that other link)



---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: jacross <jacross at lamar.colostate.edu>
Reply-To: geyser observation reports <geysers at wwc.edu>
Date:  Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:08:44 -0700

>Here is what looks like a Dolena Geizerov website.  Nice pictures.  Appears 
>to be in Russian, so I can't read it.  Would somebody who knows Russian 
>care to try telling us what the writing says?
>
>http://www.ch0103.emsd.iks.ru/
>
>Jeff Cross jacross at lamar.colostate.edu
>
>
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