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  • One curious thing in our 80 miles 'journey to the Geysers was the number of rivers we crossed, seldom very deep, but some sufficiently so to necessitate lifting our feet from the stirrups, and laying them on the pony's back as high as possible to avoid a wetting.

    A Girl's Ride in Iceland George Harley 1862

  • At a California geothermal project called The Geysers, a series of earthquakes started in 1975 when the project the world's largest was begun.

    Forbes.com: News Christopher Helman 2012

  • The project, by Seattle-based AltaRock Energy, would have fractured bedrock and extracted heat by digging more than two miles beneath the surface at a spot called the Geysers, about 100 miles north of San Francisco.

    Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2010

  • The project, by Seattle-based AltaRock Energy, would have fractured bedrock and extracted heat by digging more than two miles beneath the surface at a spot called the Geysers, about 100 miles north of San Francisco.

    Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2010

  • Last year, AltaRock abandoned its trials near a plant called The Geysers in northern California when instabilities in the rock caused the borehole to collapse.

    TechCrunch 2010

  • So, for instance, at the Geysers, which is still the largest single geothermal field in the world, output dropped substantially in the last 40 years not because the Earth got cooler but because the aquifer was depleted.

    Scientific American 2009

  • On Dec. 11, U.S. firm AltaRock Energy shut down a California geothermal project known as the Geysers that was based on a similar design as Basel.

    Clipmarks | Live Clips 2009

  • These men it appeared were not accustomed to the saddle, and having ridden forty miles on the day they arrived at the parsonage, found themselves so stiff on the morrow as to be barely able to continue their journey; indeed, two of their party gave in, and never reached the 'Geysers' at all.

    A Girl's Ride in Iceland George Harley 1862

  • Our Geysers are the finest, the bitterest, the smokiest, the noisiest, the most infernal in the world; and as for mountains, our Shasta Bute would knock your Mount Hecla into a cocked hat! "

    The Land of Thor 1848

  • Geysers, and Billy, as if accustomed to it all his life, took the reins of six horses and drove a full load over the mountains in stage time.

    CHAPTER XII 2010

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