It is in this way that the cones and mounds of the geysers in the Yellowstone National Park and in Iceland have been formed (Fig.
Geysers erupt at intervals instead of continuously boiling, because their long, narrow, and often tortuous conduits do not permit a free circulation of the water.
The recesses or pockets are of various sizes in different geysers requiring different periods of time to be filled.
One of the mud geysers is said at times to be so violent in its action, that the earth trembles for a very considerable distance, when the monster is in full eruption.
Then they would spurt great geysers ten or more feet high, making a noise not unlike that made by elephants when blowing dust over themselves, but far louder.
The Geysers are always in the valleys and generally contiguous to the lowest points.
But the actions of geysers are so weird and strange that science has probably not fully explained them.
All kinds of pools, geysersand paint-pots are heated more or less highly, all of them nearly up to, and some much above boiling point.
It may not be amiss to suggest some solution of the problems under which the silicious incrustations are produced and the active geysers act.
It leans a little; it leans a little more; and tumbles with a mighty noise and sendsgeysers up to the brink of the icy precipice and wide around for several hundred feet.
The hot springs and geysers are their feeble remnants.
Many of the individual geysers have very distinctive characteristics in the form and colour of the mound, in the style of the eruption and in the shape of the column.
In the Yellowstone National Park, in the north-west corner of Wyoming, the various phenomena of the geysers can be observed on the most portentous scale.
Geysers exist at the present time in many volcanic regions, as in the Malay Archipelago, Japan and South America; but the three localities where they attain their highest development are Iceland, New Zealand and the Yellowstone Park, U.
No satisfactory explanation of the phenomena of geysers was advanced till near the middle of the 19th century, when Bunsen elucidated their nature.
The dimensions and activity of several of the geysers render those of Iceland and New Zealand almost insignificant in comparison.
The geysers proper are about one hundred in number; the non-eruptive hot springs are much more numerous, there being more than 3000.
Among all the geysers and hot springs in Yellowstone Park, there is nothing more striking to behold than the Mammoth Paint Pots, which measure forty by sixty feet, with a mud rim on three sides from three to four feet in height.
Of all the geysers in the Yellowstone Park, this is one of the most interesting and noted on account of the great regularity of its eruptions, affording splendid opportunities for observation.
This fact was made the basis of a theory to account for geysers by Sir George Mackenzie in 1811.
There are very many variations of performance in every respect, I have seen over twenty geysers in almost jocular, and certainly in overwhelmingly magnificent, activity.
There did not seem to be five seconds at a stretch when they could not observe some monster shell bursting over the entrenchments of the French or throwing up those dirt geysers where it lodged in the earth before exploding.
When men had gazed upon such remarkable wonders as the spouting hot water geysers of the Yellowstone, they could be easily pardoned for believing almost anything they heard.
Lo, hell's geysers at our fore Pierce the plotted path--in vain, Nerving every man the more With the memory of the Maine!
The Oquendo's diapason swells; Then, torn and lame, Her portholes turn to yawning wells, Geysers of flame.
I waited a whole afternoon hoping that the best of the Whaka geysers would play, and in the end it did, and up gushed the hot water to a height of forty feet or so--a magnificent display of sparkling diamonds.
Some geysers play with absolute regularity, every four minutes or every half hour or at some other fixed time; others are more capricious, and play only once or twice a day, and at quite irregular intervals.
The brown dust-geysers increased among the rocks where the British lay, and soon the soldiers turned and ran for their horses.
The cannon on the southern hills became more active and their shells caused the landscape surrounding the waterworks to be filled withgeysers of dust.
The Geysers are famous; they were the great health resort of the Indians before the coming of the whites.
There, at Calistoga, the railroad ceases, and the traveller who intends faring farther, to the Geysers or to the springs in Lake County, must cross the spurs of the mountain by stage.
It was with an eye on one of these deserted places, Pine Flat, on the Geysers road, that we had come first to Calistoga.
There are several other geysers in the island besides this big one.
Houdin's Autobiography, ii 270] Geysers have been recently discovered in California; but the jets do not rise higher than twenty or thirty feet.
Even the more remote Hecla with the playful Geysers may be reached within a reasonable time.
Of this nature are the Geysers of Iceland and California, already described.
Many of these springs and geysers are so hot that a mere touch of the water will blister the flesh as quickly as contact with red-hot iron.
It is, however, no more significant than the scores of other steam-holes and spouting geysers which force themselves to the surface of the land all about this sulphurous region.
I'm goin' over yon a piece ter see ef thar is some mud geysers down thar.
Not far from the geysers Old Rocks was engaged in a hand-to-hand encounter with a huge grizzly bear!
There were the mud geysers Old Rocks had started out to look for.
Although at the present time there are no true geysers in this group, the evidence is clear that these were, in former times, very powerful ones, that have built up mountains of silica by their overflow.
Doane, "the geysers from the other hot springs except by seeing them play, and doubtless there are many besides in the valley of great size, which we saw when quiet, and classed as boiling springs.
We camped the evening of August 5th, in the middle of the Upper Geyser Basin, in the midst of some of the grandest geysers in the world.
On reaching the bottom the mist is gathered into a shallow basin, forming a pool of clear cold water, delightfully refreshing in this region of steaming geysers and volcanic heat.
The narratives of both these men are very remarkable, and Bridger, in one of his recitals, described an immense boiling spring, that is a perfect counterpart of the Geysers of Iceland.
Two hundred yards below the Fan are two lively geysers called the Sentinels.
The entire valley is full of similar springs, many of these no doubt geysers whose periods of activity have never been observed.
The hot springs and the geysers represent the last stages--the vents or escape-pipes--of these remarkable volcanic manifestations of the internal forces.
Forty or fifty comparatively unimportant geysers and boiling springs are scattered along the narrow valley to the junction of Iron Spring Creek, the lower limit of the Upper Geyser Basin.
The geysers of Iceland, which have been objects of interest for the scientific men and travellers of the entire world, sink into insignificance in comparison with the hot springs of the Yellowstone and Firehole Basins.
On the opposite side of the river, along a little branch that flows in from the west, is a considerable group of geysers and boiling springs.
This is one of the most accommodating geysers in the basin, and during our stay played once an hour quite regularly.
During the night we were several times awakened by the rush of steam and the hissing of the waters, as the restless geysersspouted forth in the darkness.
North of this lake are many smaller ones, round which steam rises from hot springs, and where many fine geysers shoot up, playing like fountains.
There are as many as four thousand hot springs and a hundred geysers in the lower part of the valley between the crests of the Rocky Mountains.
Her mountains are rarely disturbed by the ravings of Pluto, her great geysers are forcible, but not dangerously erratic, and her boiling springs are so amiable that they may be studied and safely observed at short range.
These dead springs or geysersare a common feature in the park, and are called, in the language of Iceland a "laug.
The Madison River can be seen in the distance and also the geysers in operation.
Examining the mud-springs and geysers was hazardous business and could be a painful experience, as Hayden discovered: "The entire surface is perfectly bare of vegetation and hot, yielding in many places to slight pressure.
In this place of despair lay most of the big geysers who know when there is trouble in Krakatoa, who tell the pines when there is a cyclone on the Atlantic seaboard, and who--are exhibited to visitors under pretty and fanciful names.
It is fed by the overflow from the various geysers and basins,--a warm and deadly river wherein no fish breed.
By the time you have looked at all the othergeysers he will be ready to play.
It lies not very far from the Lion, which is a sullen, roaring beast, and they say that when it is very active the other geysers presently follow suit.
After the Krakatoa eruption all the geysers went mad together, spouting, spurting, and bellowing till men feared that they would rip up the whole field.
Would you believe that even these terrible creatures have to be guarded by the troopers to prevent the irreverent American from chipping the cones to pieces, or worse still, making the geysers sick?
He passed by one of the geysersjust as it was sending up its high column of hot water and its high column of steam.
He watched the regular eruptions of the geysers with amazement and delight; he insisted on sampling the mineral springs, and intended to learn in time their various properties.
The geysers of the Yellowstone, although situated at the height of 7765 feet above the level of the sea, nevertheless lie in valleys, for the mountains surrounding them are much higher still.
Mr. Jeaffreson told me that at Yellowstone Park, in America, visitors are carefully watched to see that they do not make the geysers work artificially by means of soap.
Into it we rode: so thick in fact did it become, that by the time we reached the Geysers all around was hidden in yellow sand, and our eyes were filled with dust, until the tears streamed down and we were nearly blinded.
Time waits on no man, so we tore ourselves away, feeling, however, we had seen in the Iceland Geysers one of the greatest marvels of Nature.
About half way between the Geysers and Thingvalla we recrossed the famous Bruara Fall.
The mere glancing around, and noticing how the geysers had evidently, like human beings, but a transient existence, produced a somewhat strange sensation.
Then them geysers blowed up, one arter the next, an' I heard somethin' kinder cave in between here an' China.
Fust I knew them geysers begun for to groan egregious like, an' I seen the caribou gallopin' hell-bent south.
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