Yellowstone volcano eruption: ‘Unusually active’ Steamboat Geyser blasts boiling water

Monday, May 21, 2018
By Paul Martin

STEAMBOAT Geyser, one of Yellowstone volcano’s most active hot water fountains, stunned scientists by blasting a plume of scorching hot water for the fifth time this year.

By SEBASTIAN KETTLEY
Express.co.uk
Mon, May 21, 2018

Volcanologists tracking the Yellowstone supervolcano caldera said the geyser action came following a highly irregular eruptive pattern in recent months.

Steamboat Geyser roared back into life earlier last April with the first triple eruption in 15 years, sparking interest from the scientific community.

The Yellowstone geyser has now erupted an additional two more times on May 4 and May 15 respectively.

Michael Poland, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) chief of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, said: “It is a spectacular geyser. When it erupts, it generally has very big eruptions.”

Geysers are typically labelled anomalies when their eruptions appear to follow a semi-rigid patter.

Yellowstone’s most famous geyser, Old Faithful, is one such anomaly with eruptions which stun the national park’s visitors roughly every 35 to 120 minutes.

Geysers like Old Faithful and Steamboat erupt whenever water and steam get trapped in a tight spot deep below the geyser’s blowhole.

The mix of water and steam builds in pressure until it finds its way to the surface where a tall stream of scorching hot water blasts hundreds of feet in the sky.

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