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powering a cold-water geyser can escape the rock strata overlying its aquifer only through weak segments of rock, like faults, joints, or drilled wells. A borehole drilled for a well, for example, can unexpectedly provide an escape route for the pressurized water and
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so that it remains in the water as dissolved gas or small bubbles. When the pressure decreases due to the widening of a fissure, the CO
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to reach the surface. The column of water rising through the rock exerts enough pressure on the gaseous CO
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Bonotto, Daniel Marcos (2016). "Hydrogeochemical study of spas groundwaters from southeast Brazil".
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bubbles expand, and that expansion displaces the water above and causes the eruption.
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derive the energy for their eruptons from the proximity to (relatively) near-surface
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are trapped by less permeable overlying strata. The more familiar hot-water
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are geysers that have eruptions whose water spurts are propelled by
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concentrations and refresh rate, aquifer water yield, etc.
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Index

Tall, thin geyser erupts as bystanders watch.
Andernach Geyser
CO2
geysers
soda pop
aquifer
geysers
magma
magmatic sources
steam pressure
Wallender Born
Saratoga Springs, New York
Crystal Geyser
Green River, Utah
Caxambu
Herľany
Sivá Brada
Wallender Born
Wehr Geyser
Andernach Geyser


Glennon, J.A.
"Carbon dioxide-driven, cold water geysers"
University of California, Santa Barbara
the original
Glennon, J.A.
GOSA
Transactions
Journal of Geochemical Exploration

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