Hi All. We have two hot springs within a 45 minute drive from where I live and I have to wonder if the heat source for those hot springs is the same heat source for the geysers. This is not to say that the magma source is the same, but that there is a separate magma source for the two hot springs.

Whenever I go into the hills surrounding my home I can see evidence of past volcanics. Those volcanics have a name, which is the Quien Sabe Volcanics. They can be seen from the Hollister area all the way north into
Sonoma County and possible into Lake County and maybe beyond if Lake Pillsbury is any indication. It has been said that a volcano is being born there. We should be able to see it in about 400,000 years unless of course an earthquake changes it. The right or wrong earthquake depending on how you look at it could shut the whole system down, or move the time schedule ahead. The fault responsible for that would be the Bartlett Springs fault. Do you know the fault cuts all the way through the earth’s crust to the mantle?

Last night, or early this morning I was checking out a new search engine when I came across this article about the geysers. I had never seen it before, but found it to be rather interesting. Hope you enjoy. Take Care…Don in creepy town

“It is a pleasantly warm winter Tuesday, a slow day for the Wine Country tourist trade but a fine time to linger in the strangely serene, bamboo-protected glade that caches the geyser. An elderly woman in running shoes brandishes a video recorder, poised for the eruption.”

"REMEMBER," the sign insists, "YOU ARE NOT WAITING, YOU ARE WATCHING FOR A PHENOMENA TO TAKE PLACE AT ANY MOMENT."

“Meanwhile, far below our feet—a mile deep, or two miles; no one really knows—water has percolated into a natural underground reservoir, a layer of fractured rock that has been heated by magma farther underground. As the water nears the heat source, it becomes increasingly hot and decreasingly dense, and it begins to rise. It’s a natural convection system, not unlike the teakettle on your stove. At some point the water reaches a critical threshold and bursts into a mixture of liquid and steam, now ascending rapidly through fractures in the layers of rock and soil. It breaches the surface of the earth at just about 350 degrees Fahrenheit, soaring 40 feet into the sky in a pulsating burst that mimics the heart-pumped bleeding of a critical wound. After a minute or two, the geyser announces its departure as it did its arrival, with a chuffing gurgle.”

http://www.baynature.com/2003apriljune/geysers_2003apriljune.html

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