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Countries using British English refer to a Water heater as a geyser ("geezer"). (Perhaps just mentioning this usage will suffice?)
This strikes me as odd and out of place. There may be a few sentences in here that could be salvaged and either re-entered into this article or other articles (the Leidenfrost effect, perhaps)? Ed Cormany 04:03 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)
I concur; also, the previous several paragraphs (describing the Great Geysir in Iceland) are badly out of date. I think this whole section must have been taken without attribution from some very old book. The absence of more than a passing mention of the Yellowstone geysers, any mention at all of the geyser fields in Kamchatka, and a paragraph about Californian geysers which just plain do not exist, all bespeak a serious need for someone to rewrite this article from scratch.
(Actually several geysers DO exist in California --- see: (Bryan 1995 and Glennon 2005) May 2005). Except during major tectonic events, they are all quite small – less than a meter high).
I volunteer, but I can't take the time right now. I'll be back in a few days. Evan Hunt 00:05 23 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Would it not be very convenient to live near a geyser? We might have our victuals cooked by it, and have pipes led from it all round our house, to keep us comfortable in winter; and we might have nice hot baths in our dressing-rooms, arid even a little steam-engine to roast our meat and grind our coffee. But perhaps you may think it might not be altogether pleasant to be kept so continually in hot water.
Were any of the water from the geyser to fall on your hands, you would doubtless feel it rather sore; still more so, were you to be so rash as to thrust your hand fairly into the jet of boiling water, as it ascends into the air. Nevertheless, strange as it may seem, it would be possible for you, without feeling any pain or sustaining any injury, to thrust your hand right into the glowing lava as it flows from the crater of Hekla. The only precaution needful to be observed, is first to plunge the hand into cold water, and then dry it gently with a soft towel, but so as to leave it still a little moist. This discovery was made by a French philosopher, M. Boutigny, and has been practically proved both by him and M. Houdin, the celebrated conjuror, by thrusting their hands into molten iron, as it flowed from the furnace. The latter describes the sensation as like what one might imagine to be felt on putting the hand into liquid velvet. The reason why this experiment proves so harmless is that between the skin and the glowing substance there is formed a film of vapour, which acts as a complete protection. It is this elastic cushion of vapour which imparts that feeling of softness described by M. Houdin; for it is with it alone that the hand comes into contact.
I have added a series of photos of Strokkur (Great Geysir's very active next door neighbour), but I know little about page layout and HTML... can anyone with the necessary skills make it look better? Pete 08:55, 16 Aug 2003 (UTC)
which effect has the climate? what kind of climate is necessary for the existence of geysers? -- 141.53.194.251 13:13, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Would be great to have a map showing world distribution of geysers. Is anyone able to create it? -- Eleassar777 15:43, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Geysers exist in all climates, thus I removed "climate" as a factor necessary for geysers.
It seems a little strange that the article discusses the likelihood of geothermal activity on Triton. "Geothermal" seems like a word that could apply to Earth only. Perhaps someone with more knowledge on the subject can comment.
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Are the TOC and first section supposed to look like that? -- Thinboy00 talk/ contribs @174, i.e. 03:10, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Aren't undersea vents a type of geyser? If so, the article needs to be massively overwritten. For example the article claims only 1000 but it seems that underwater there are significantly more the article mentions two types of geysers, but wouldn't the undersea type be a third? etc., Perhaps a comparison of geysers and undersea vents is in order? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.18.146.209 ( talk) 05:47, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
the article is currently maintained by User:Sushant gupta and User:Indianescence. pls. discuss before making any big change. thank you, Sushant gupta ( talk) 14:53, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
1>An introduction to the geysers talking about how are they formed and where are they found. Just a brief paragraph.
2>Relation between geysers and Volcanoes.
Done by Sushant in paragraph of formation.
3>Geothermal Energy (important topic)
4>Uses of Geysers should cover:
Done
Comments welcome. Indianescence ( talk) 07:59, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
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Ans. 1 Yes, i will always welcome additional feedbacks as they help in improving the article.
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I am still not comfortable with the use of   but i do put in the essential punctuations.
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(unindent) My understanding of units is that the goal (at least for GA) is to: 1. use one system primarily. 2. when possible, convert the units to the other form in parentheses. It would be great if you could do that, but the GA criteria does not require that article comply 100% with the Manual of Style in every detail. Let me know what you prefer to do, I'll be passing the article once I hear from you in all likelihood. Van Tucky 22:27, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
Thank you so much. Indianescence ( talk) 04:28, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks VanTucky! i appreciate your efforts in reviewing this article. Sushant gupta ( talk) 14:46, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
FA does not look far now! A little expansion here and there with some more effort, FA will be easy to achieve! I feel the following are essential now:
1.A section explaning working of
Geothermal energy plants (brief explaination) and how does it depend on Geysers, how much energy they produce, the future of geothermal energy, should not be very long).
2.Tourism and Geysers (i don't feel its a bad idea at all!)
3.A little more expansion of Major Geyser fields to make them decent paragraphs.
4.It seems there are many style-related requirements which have to be fulfilled. The web site references should be renamed uniformly and properly. The book references look good. If they too have some requirements, they should be fulfilled.
5.Removing references from the lead and shifting them to the article.
6.Some little things here and there do require more references.
7.Relationship between geysers and volcanoes need expansion,maybe a new section.
I feel if these are done, then FA will be very easy. General expansion is a must. becomes 43,000 to 45,000 bytes long, it will be perfect. If the article The article already has a good framework for FA. Geyser is a article of Geographical importance and requires to be FA. Comments always welcome. Indianescence ( talk) 17:35, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
While Triton gets a mention, Enceladus also has (predominately) water geysers. Ref 'Cassini Observes the Active South Pole of Enceladus' DOI: 10.1126/Science, 1123013 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.233.237.117 ( talk) 08:16, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
“The world’s only hot soda[!?] water geyser” is allegedly to be found in Te Aroha, New Zealand. I wonder if somebody could add a passage about this and include it under the subdivision Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand (or under the main article Taupo Volcanic Zone. Soda water in connection with geysers is mentioned in neither of these articles, but is cropping up “everywhere” in tourist brochures covering the NZ region. Hirpex ( talk) 11:55, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
The article states that a geyser eruption begins with boiling at the bottom, and the surface waters are cooler (at least implied that they are not boiling). This does not appear to be the case for all geysers, and some of the more famous ones (such as Old Faithful) actually seem to reach the critical temperature near the top of the column. I need to dig at this a little more (this is my first wiki edit), but the "shock tube" model of Kieffer should probably be mentioned as a more modern alternative mechanism.
Brian 42 Davis ( talk) 16:32, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I was looking for info on the Andernach Geyser, and naturally I came to this page. It had a photo of the geyser, but a "page does not exist" tag on the Andernach Geyser name. When I clicked on the photo, I found a link in the description to a German language page on this particular geyser ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geysir_Andernach). Is there a reason why this German page is not linked to the Geyser page? Although it's a German page, I was still able to get the gist of it using the automatic translation. I'm simply not sure of the rules regarding linking pages of different languages, or on different Wikipedia sites, and would appreciate it if someone could clarify standard practice, before I go adding a link. Thanks, Resinguy ( talk) 19:08, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
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Under the "General Categorization" section the page says, "There are two types of geysers: fountain geysers which erupt from pools of water, typically in a series of intense, even violent, bursts; and musa geysers which erupt from not playing league or mounds of siliceous sinter." I suspect "not playing league or" can be deleted, but because I don't know much about geysers I left it up in case it was an awkward translation of some useful information. Can someone knowledgeable take a look? Alianoraree ( talk) 10:42, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
@ Alianoraree: Thank you for spotting this. It was part of some vandalism a few days ago. I have reverted it. DuncanHill ( talk) 20:05, 4 June 2020 (UTC)