Now *this* is a fountain

[debgeisler]

Fly Geyser in Nevada started as an "oops" when people digging a well hit a spot where superhot water shot forth from the earth. Then things changed, and a natural geyser took over. And this (and more shots at the link) is what it looks like now:



(Photo by Flickr user laurent martres.)

Comments

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous.

Want.

Not enough to live in Nevada, mind you. But a geyser over where the sinkhole is would be way fine.

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

I think you need a hot spring, a gusher, and 50 years or so. But ain't it spiffy? :-)

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's only about 100 miles north of the place here in Fernley, which by Nevada standards is right in our back yard. Pity the owners won't sell it to make it more accessible to the public.

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

It *is* a bummer...but I can understand (given how utterly unsafe it looks) their reluctance to have the public around.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Well, they do let people wander boardwalks in Yellowstone [g].

[rono-60103.livejournal.com]

I continue to be amazed on how much can be built (instead of worn away) by water if it contains the right minerals.

Not too far from where I grew up in Albuquerque, is Soda Dam in the Jamez Mountains near Jamez Springs. Fed by a sulfur and other mineral rich hot springs, a creek once created a natural dam across the Jamez river - until the much larger river cut a hole through the bottom. (My nose told me over the course of several visits that sulfur is one of the compounds present in the water from the spring that built the dam, what else is there, I have no clue)

Alas, Soda Dam is probably no longer being added to since the highway (NM-4, unless it got renumbered) now cuts between the spring and the river. But the dam itself is still interesting.

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

I've just looked at some photos of the Soda Dam. What a cool piece of work that is!

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Wow.