[Geysers] Geysers near Sajama

[TSBryan at aol.com]

I may have posted a copy of this photo last spring, but then again maybe not 
since I only found it a few days before I headed toward Yellowstone. I am 
posting it as a small jpg attachment. The picture shows "geysers" near Sajama, in 
western Bolivia. The photographer is Dr. Heinrich Brasse, Department of 
Geophysics, Free University of Berlin, Germany. In response to my query, he wrote:
Admittingly these "geysers" are perhaps not true geysers as they erupt more 
or less constantly on a very small scale. Everybody, in particular the local 
tourism industry calls them so. There exist about half a dozen pools, of which 
2-3 have this eruptive characteristic. Please note that I am not a specialist 
on these, I just visited them during my field campaigns. The springs are 
located about 10 km WNW of Sajama village.
In further query, Dr. Brasse said that no, he did not see the eruptions fully 
pause. And so it seems that Bolivia's second-most-likely geyser field does 
not qualify.

Scott Bryan
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