[Geysers] Fw: (USGS/NPS News Release) What Makes an Old GeyserFaithful?

[Bruce Jensen]

Here's a possibility - the specific volume of water that plays from a geyser may have been in the ground for 500 years, but the level of activity in the geyser is still related to pressure exerted by the weight of more recent rainfall that collects above the more ancient water...

???

Bruce Jensen
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--- On Fri, 5/30/08, Lucille Reilly <thedulcimerlady at juno.com> wrote:

> From: Lucille Reilly <thedulcimerlady at juno.com>
> Subject: RE: [Geysers] Fw: (USGS/NPS News Release) What Makes an Old GeyserFaithful?
> To: "'Geyser Observation Reports'" <geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu>
> Date: Friday, May 30, 2008, 8:04 PM
> I find this very interesting because I remember the ranger
> saying on a
> geyser walk in 2000 that OF's water supply is about 500
> years old.  Not so?
> Now I wonder how that info came about.
> 
> Lucille Reilly
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> ----- Forwarded by Lee Whittlesey/YELL/NPS on 05/30/2008
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>                       05/30/2008 09:26
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> For Immediate Release - May 30, 2008
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> WHAT MAKES AN OLD GEYSER FAITHFUL?
> 
> New research suggests that how often Old Faithful and other
> Yellowstone
> geysers erupt may depend on annual rainfall patterns.
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