Have you ever tried to stomp over the pit holes on the ground that spills out water from underneath when you were young ? We did it just for fun, but would never did the same on this one, even among the most daring, will be able to set the feet on top of a GEYSER.

Some places on Earth are like gigantic pressure cookers, fueled by massive volcanoes. Water from rain and snowmelt, much of it centuries- or even millennia- old, percolates down through cracks in the Earth’s crust.

The water is heated by magma reservoirs to well over the surface boiling point, but remains in a liquid state because of the pressure of overlaying rock and colder water. The superheated water filters upward, eventually release in the thousands of GEYSERs, hot springs and other hydrothermal settings by mother Earth.

The mechanism of the geyser works this way : water rises from a deep reservoir into a teapot shaped chamber. As water and gases filled the sealed space, pressure builds behind a narrow constriction until steam shoots through. Some water splashes out, then jets of steam and water explode up, rising on average over 30 metres. As the chamber drains, pressure drops , and the process begins again.

 

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