[Geysers] RE: Geysers Digest, Vol 1138, Issue 2

[Bruce Jensen]

This is what I was thinking too.  While an individual parcel of water itself may take hundreds of years to circulate and descend to the level where it enters a geyser's plumbing, it, and the system within which it resides, is still under pressure from rainfall that percolates into the ground behind it - and this systemic pressure, if it varies, will also vary the rate at which water enters the geysers.

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Bruce Jensen


--- On Sat, 5/31/08, Robert C. Johnson <birdboy48 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Robert C. Johnson <birdboy48 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Geysers] RE: Geysers Digest, Vol 1138, Issue 2
> To: geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu
> Date: Saturday, May 31, 2008, 5:12 PM
> Re : Fw: (USGS/NPS News Release) What Makes an Old Geyser
> Faithful? 
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>   As I understand from the study, the contention is that
> variability of geyser functions is related to pressure on
> the water table as determined by yearly precipitation.  The
> water in the system  itself could indeed be 500 years old by
> the time it reaches various geysers, while the pressure on
> the system as a whole could reflect current seasonal
> variations.
>  
> Robert Johnson
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> From: TSBryan at aol.com> Subject: Re: [Geysers] Teapot
> Geyser> To: geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu> Message-ID:
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> text/plain; charset="us-ascii"> > > In a
> message dated 5/30/2008 5:42:59 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
> > david.schwarz at gmail.com writes:> > I'm
> attaching an image (not in eruption) to be clear about the
> feature I'm > talking about, in case I've been
> mistaken about its identity.> > > The cone in
> David Schwarz's photo is NOT Teapot, but rather is
> Split Cone. > It has been active in the past few years,
> occasionally reaching as high as 2 > feet or so. In the
> image that was posted, Teapot is not visible but, rather,
> > would be pretty much down the slope behind Old
> Faithful. I'm not sure Teapot > even shows in the
> Webcam images, but I'm going to check (meant to
> yesterday but > forgot).> > Scott Bryan> >
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