[Geysers] Geysers Over 100 Feet

JEFFREY CROSS jeff.cross at utah.edu
Mon Dec 6 19:39:18 PST 2010


I was pondering recently over how *few* geysers there are that 1) erupt to over 100 feet high, and 2) could be seen, on purpose, by an average tourist with a day or two of vacation time.  The worldwide list is fairly short:

Old Faithful
Beehive
Grand
Castle (?)
Great Fountain
Pohutu (New Zealand)
Strokkur (Iceland)
Velikan (Russia)

I have constrained this list to geysers presently active.  Castle is debatable--I think it typically peaks at 50 to 75 feet, and only rarely reaches 100 feet.

Can anyone think of any geyser that was unjustly omitted?

Jeff Cross
jeff.cross at utah.edu


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