geysers

The twin geysers of Los Hervores, located just south of Hacienda El Carmen not far from Guadalajara, Jalisco.

The twin geysers of Los Hervores, located just south of Hacienda El Carmen not far from Guadalajara, Jalisco. © John Pint, 2009 2009

So he says that even though the plumes on Enceladus are often called geysers, that's probably not the right word for what the eruptions are like.

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The terraces and platforms built by the geysers are another evidence that the cordillera is a region where the surface of the earth is still being shaped into new forms by forces acting from within.

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Where the Mlazi River flows into the concrete Umlaas Canal section, he found "geysers" of raw sewage bubbling up from the bottom of test samples that showed readings of 280,000 counts of E. coli/100ml of water during his latest 2007 survey.

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There were also plans to fit remote controls to households to switch off high watt usage equipment such as geysers, stoves and under-floor heating.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

It was he, indeed, who gave the earliest authentic account of "geysers," those springs of warm water which occasionally reach to such great heights, and he also supplied curious details of the existence of fossil wood, which prove that at an early geological period, Iceland, now entirely devoid of trees, possessed enormous forests.

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"NASA's Cassini spacecraft recently revealed Enceladus as a dynamic place, recording geological features such as geysers emerging from the 'tiger stripes' which are thought to be cracks caused by tectonic activity on the south pole of the moon's surface," said Dr Dave Stegman, a Centenary Research Fellow in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

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What I meant was, do the Brits (or did they) call "water heaters" in general "geysers", either after the real thing in Iceland or after the name, say, of a particular British company that made them?

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

What I meant was, do the Brits (or did they) call "water heaters" in general "geysers", either after the real thing in Iceland or after the name, say, of a particular British company that made them?

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

What I meant was, do the Brits (or did they) call "water heaters" in general "geysers", either after the real thing in Iceland or after the name, say, of a particular British company that made them?

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008