The spectacular eruptions of steam and water we call geysers are only the tip of the proverbial iceberg, the result of thousands of years of specific natural conditions and physical processes. Learn the Stuff You Should Know about geysers in this classic episode.
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the soul from two thousand twelve call geysers colon
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Title myself and I still
to this day. So
I hope you enjoy it. It's one of those really cool earth Sciences, Bio GEO, chemical ones. That really get me jazzed and I hope it gets you Jim,
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welcome to step. You should now production of Iheart radios, how stuff works, good, reworked, renewed podcast on Josh Clark, there's Charles, very shocked by this is that you should know the air to couple arrived.
Hitler geysers sitting around just because good. I know I genuinely didn't think you're going to say geysers more slowly,
This was a pretty cool article. I thought I knew.
About geysers, but I did not know exactly what was going on there and by goes wrong on a couple
points a whole really, yes, which I will not point out come on. I well, I thought
it spread out lemonade. First of all,
and about those little guide on their doing it, get leprechaun yeah, that's what everybody think cells
about this point. Do we have a geyser myths? Sound effect? I don't think so. This is counters whether now this is earth science fired Yoke,
legal processes. Ok, I just know each other to beef up our weather
This is not whether this not whether, although it does begin with
whether Yemen Church, when something precipitates, that's whether through an precipitation, precipitates the explosion of geyser, that's right,
Yes, I have no geyser introduction man. You can't blame me though, like I looked
and there is really not a lot going on geysers. I thought you might tell the story about the people in nineteen o three going to. I didn't want to steal serpent. Ok, let's do that, though, since you Bob
cause I mean I thought about the tears. I go. Hang back just hang back
Apparently geysers can kill you and you know
see something awful go off. That's why you're three hundred feet away watching it here in a united me on top of the thing right, but apparently nineteen o three New Zealand
sure is lousy with geysers.
tourists visiting their got caught in a jet at
Why men, gay women gave Valley. I says
and killed all four people and carried them more than a mile away. Guess that is sad and after
after we explain how geysers work. I think that
What we should mention that again, because it once
understood. How does it work when I read that I was like those people met a terrible, terrible demise. Sure, like vague, that
those terrible way to go, get it I mean it's tantamount to getting thrown into
Ok, now are caught in dropping into the cracks of an earthquake and there are calculated, as it turns out or being blood into debt which is now related. Nobody is pretty bad way to go to the geothermal earth property.
so Chuck geysers, as I learned for reading this article on how this works dot com.
Beloved site are actually kind of fragile and there's not that many.
this, this article, two thousand there's a thousand geysers roughly in in the world
and I read elsewhere- that there's only about fifty geyser fields on the planet and about two thirds
those have five or fewer geysers. While
which makes Yellowstone a pretty Serbs
in your report
of geyser in
These are related activity totalling when you're talking geyser at you, you don't ever just talk. Geyser you're, also talking numb fumaroles, you talk in hot springs, sure, mud pots, steam vents.
And all of my based around the same thing, which is there some sort of geothermal
cavity. That's relatively close to the earth's surface right right and theirs.
Components to a geyser
and they are water supply plumbing system in heat source. Yet
Are you a fourth later on? Ok later, though, I have to wait,
how it is going to say when it is which is remoteness and then what will circle back
TAT term its family? It becomes very remote.
so a water supply would start there, because if you
got water, you ain't got no geyser yeah
and I saw this article the rivers can often.
Form the water supply,
I Didn'T- I didn't see that elsewhere for the most part, from what I for
can gathers that the water supply is precipitation
rain and snow melt percolating through the earth's crust over five hundred.
Thousand or so years, and then it
goes down to the point where it comes in contact with, like we said, rob
Thirdly, shallow geothermal activity using
very, very young volcanic volcano volcanic activity or very, very old, like on in the throes of death. Vulcan
the activity right yeah-
It can be anything from magma to cold magma, but its very hot rock. In its close enough to the surface
that this water doesn't evaporated starts to trickle. Backup
yeah and what will you say close three, my
down seems like a.
way down, but if you're talking the planet earth, nothing is pretty close. If you're talkin magma, it's pretty close contact hunger.
It's pretty close! Its closer than you want it to be pal yeah. I got no yoga
ok number to the funding system right very
for the plumbing system is a series of fishers.
That run miles beneath the surface in one important aspect of this.
Measures is thereby
sickly sealed shut with silica from Rio light.
organic rock and
These minerals have seal this rock shut rice like really important part of their water. This percolating down down it heats up and starts to travel back up. It takes its
Look at that realise with it near and then it is kind of acts
sealant along these pipes over five hundred thousand years, however long a taste for it to go back up its its ceiling in its making water
We and I imagine that in red,
But I imagine that this kind of activity happens elsewhere on the planet, but it's not sealed up, so it just disperses right right, yeah, because
One of the key ingredients of a geyser is pressure. High pressure, the dry anti get that pressure in these pipes. You have to have realised coded sealed pipes. That's ok! So there
The plumbing system and the public system, berries, all geyser different, sometimes dislike up huge long,
vertical shaft. Sometimes it been
in turns, and wines around okay, so this is this is something that actually differentiates geysers from a hot springs. So a hot spring is just like a one like along vertical chef, coming from the hot water up to the top, but there's no obstruct
and what makes a geyser geyser is the fact that there is an obstruction in the plumbing right are the hot spring water can just move freely up and down. There's there's just free exchange
any soak around like a big lazy warrior, but there's no pressure with it
Is there some sort of obstruction? Where
sure save the water on its way back up and there's this wide pool that bottlenecks at the top. So now yeah pressure, there's a bunch of different pipes, feeding into one pipe and they all can
the same place, another bottleneck or this, this pipe
Water is so wide in so deep yeah that the pressure
The water above the water at the bottom- yes, so tremendous there. For all intents and purposes, it creates a bottleneck just strictly out a pressure without an actual
struck, yet the weight of the water itself is so great, so we have a water supply and plumbing system that is see.
With royal, which makes a watertight am pressurized. Return in some sort of means for pressure to build
yeah, and I guess we can go ahead and liking it to a pressure cooker now. So you understand we're talkin about if you've ever cooked, with a pressure cooker at home or if you've ever eaten at chick fil a in their delicious.
Pressure. Fried chicken is thou, they do oh
yeah letter, I later pressure that sanctions, where there's a juicy man,
so waters standard waters is gonna boil it like a hundred degrees celsius newborn agenda on her fancy friends body. If you're. If you
cooking with pressure cooker, which means you know the lettuce sealed shut it lets out. Some steam are also would explode. Obviously it will actually
take a lot more energy to boil
and bubble up which means more heat, and so you can actually cooking pressure cooker, like a hundred and twenty five degrees right, because it is substantial for what
under that pressure, if it takes a lot more for what it was boiling water, but it's like air bubbles forming and rising the top when the pressures too great a camp boil. So the boiling point rise is right when it boils, but it won't that kin evaporate well. No, it can't it can't form the bubbles,
carried in the top right, so it can actually boil
so it's a sitting there in this hype,
sure environment it high higher the thin boiling point temperatures
the same things going on in a geyser right. That's why you ve got the obstruction. You ve got this heated water,
and you have a tremendous amount of pressure because again we're talking about miles deep and there's. That's
a bit of pressure at the bottom, the water at the bottom.
hotter and hotter and hotter of a horse in a lot of time. Yeah, like I mean I guess it depend
but I afford geysers form and start they think,
all this one is between five thousand and forty thousand years old are really so yeah, so it takes a little while, because you know the plumbing Hester has to seal off everything, but as that pressure builds, then that heat increases. You can reach temperatures alike
or five hundred degrees. Fahrenheit of this water is still not boiling right outright.
and then eventually does boil over overcomes that pressure threshold will find its way through to two the escape route, which is that the top of the surface and it'll just and that's it,
The eruption scored a little bit of water out yoga blog and thank while that was a big relief and such
big relief that
the steam all the sudden expands to fifteen hundred
I'm a volume of the water. It's
if you ever boiling river steam
animals in your house the best way to steam budget.
this is u dont decided on a massive boil and covered up you get to that massive boil, and then you turn that heat
low and all the sudden that pressure drop, creates like massive amounts
steam right and the reason. Why is because
when you increase pressure, you increase the temperature, that's the boiling point of water. If suddenly you have that
temperature still, but the pressure decreases yet that
that water in this geyser just flash vapor rises and because there is,
a lot more volume do in equal amount of water and steam. Let steam, like you, said, expands to what fifteen hundred times
I and there's your geyser pow. Yet that's all the sudden, all the steam in the water just gets shot out depending on
gonna geyser, it is it's gonna, take different formations and be different heights and last different amounts of time. But
it'll keep going until it either runs out of water or at cools down enough for it to start all over again
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we it to start all over again, which is how you get something like old, faithful. I drank whence it whence it really
says there, dumb that pressure and shoots out it's the whole process is begins again:
and you have geysers like old, faithful that around
like on a pretty regular schedule. I think it's between, like sixty and
eighty five minutes or something like the well got the new schedule schedule, because it's been its
in happening with greater with less frequent
in greater power in recent years, I think said since two thousand ok
in its by modal, they call it by model and if you're gonna know faithful and Wyoming
generally to eruption durations now, either along one, which is over four minutes or a short one which about two and a half minutes,
you have just missed the short one they'll be
an hour before your next eruption.
we have just missed the long one there
it's gonna be about an hour and a half until the next one, but either way it's it's worth sticking around for a year and when he heard the page
and there is obviously a webcam up where you can see it and stuff, but that's not as one, but if you get it
web page and ass for tips on you know, seeing it they say well, if there
a lot of people sitting around on the benches. That means there's one upcoming if there's about
people getting up and leaving. That means it just happened like while really the best you can do that sounds like gown like Hippy Park, Ranger lodging
exactly okay. So why gets round like famous geysers right yeah?
so quickly. I mentioned a teased about the fourth thing we remoteness, apparently
fifty years
producing energy with Giovanni
All energy production is increased, so much that is affecting geysers,
and so being remote is now believed to be one
the requirements to be geyser because geysers vanishing because of man, because the sobs
to figure this out. Maybe you can help me that's because we dig down to these this. This sum,
these geysers are this geothermal activity and in doing so, are we creating like a release valve, so the pressure can build as much
I think so we need to spend turbines to create it
Gee, but I know you can also have like a geothermal system in your backyard right, which dont think uses and unthinking by create steam
so I feel like what we're doing then is creating artificial geysers by creating an artificial pipe to let steam out, which would impact any natural gas activity. I might be going on Catholic. We so they very fragile earthquakes, frequently cut him off right. They all
Oh bring him back to life. Tat is true like there was one called these stroker geyser at that. That would be Sdr
o you are young and I'd stroker like struck race, right right, so Stroker guy
is after the Icelandic, while stroker is after the icelandic verb to churn. Actually guy
there's after the icelandic verb to gush near
so this is all very icelandic and in origin, but that would be G Y S. Eye are yes, Gazer! Guess how perhaps in icelandic sure, owner how Bureau pronounces geyser, hissing Kristen wigs impression her. Now it's really great
ok, so these stroker geyser was actually it was enacted in
seventeen, eighty nine, because of an earthquake,
and then another earthquake hit in eighteen. Ninety six and it became inactive. It went dormant and the local said she had to get her Kaiser Back man. It's all blocked up
cleared it. Often now it's run and again at
dangerous were very dangerous. I work here.
Another way to that humans are impacting, is mineral extraction, apparently in
Two thousand three were extracting minerals in Chile. The second
largest geyser field in South America, and it killed it basically from extracting golden stuff
cheese because about traceability, mess with the plumbing gear and then you're finished, because it's like you said they come in and oppression
cooker, has little steam thou, so it doesn't explode right. Geysers aren't supposed to have that right if they had that they just don't go off the local final displayed, some seem off close them,
and um I'm? That does happen. Naturally, there are steam vents located near
eyes.
Yellow seems we have ten thousand geothermal
What is the word? They use basically different things.
Ten thousand geothermal different thing, great
a majority of those relic steamboats other man
though their natural, like they're, like little steam releases that that come up through fish,
out in the earth about you meant we put those into make old, faithful like safer. No, they happen. Naturally, house could, but I think it's the same thing is drilling a whole down to a GEO thermal different thing and in tat
It's a runner turbine, ok, catch Elite, you didn't say interesting, interesting man. This stuff is very interesting
I'll pay for a cone geyser now much
understand the differences at the difference is that the outlet, like the shape
the thing above the earth, yes or with a comb guys were the right light bubbles up enough over time. Ok, let it builds up in it forms a little cone at odds with the guys who shoots out of a normally with the comb geyser. You have a big street
go a jet gawayne the air. Like hundreds of feet. There are one in Numb in New Zealand
I'm an gay nicer are one streamed. Fourteen hundred seventy five,
in the air and for those of you in New Zealand that foreign fifty meters, that's a bridge
record right yet nineteen, oh two year, nineteen, oh two year a year before it killed people right and then it went dormant in nineteen o four because of a landslide, which makes me think like this things come back,
but it has got a bubble, backup, Kilkenny volume and then shut down and afterward no yeah. It's really had a really chaotic to your career
a rock star that overdosed on heroin or something but anyway, as I was saying that the cone
the jet, the air, the fountain
send a message more like chaotic stream whatever, but it doesn't come up from. Kona comes up from a pool at the surface if the guys are goes into
A pool of water and then that it will erupt out of the water
That would be the grand geyser the tall. That's the tallest
globally erupt in guys around the planet- and that is also Nellis done yet Tollison that it shoots up in the air, yet two hundred feet in crazy, fountain the hard to predict fashion, yet which is pretty surprising to because a comb guys
she's a jet straight up in the air, and this found geyser is still
eating the average one. Yet could imagine if those account geyser if the Mai,
flowing to the moon,
you mention Stroker ACE geyser, not the steamboat geyser. I like this guy yeah, apparently can she walked up to three hundred feet but
don't bother stopping by cause. It hasn't happened for fifty years can go fifty years, but yeah it's finicky,
There is also the guy, Sir, which is the only
Guy, sir, because that's where the word came from its geyser in Iceland
It was discovered in twelve ninety four, so it's
all this known guys around the planet, but they took some samples of the silica that forms the cone of
asshole, geyser and Yellowstone. That's when they think is five thousand a forty thousand years old Parrish.
Silicon dating. Can you some more
I did see one interesting little and it wasn't a joke. It was almost like you give your science
laughing about it, though you guys,
there's always called geysers, even if it quit erupt in Gaza, but that seeks to make exceeds two, be it a guys are at that point
once you have erupted, you're always called a geyser. The cone formerly known as geyser yeah. That's what I would call a shameful
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