Who is here 11 years later (2020)? Dude this animation is so cool even after 11 years! Edit: Even in 2025 (16 YEARS LATER) people are still coming haha
Well... I, at least, am still here... although not sure why YT has disassociated all my replies from their original comments. That looks more than a little confusing.
My six year old asked me how Geysers worked, this animation was linked with Old Faithful. It was clear and simple enough for him to understand, also helped me. My son has now shown it to his class and made a model. Thank you very much from Australia.
Thank you! I'll be putting up a video of an actual model (along with a few clips of real geysers), but wanted to try an animation as well, both for fun/experience, and to answer some of the questions I get. I should have smoothed out the frame transitions (like in the "sinter aging" frames early on) but didn't want to drop 100+ transition effects in iMovie. Bit of a departure for me; no LEGO :).
I went to Yellowstone and there's a hot spring near Old Faithful that slowly empties when Old Faithful is building up pressure and then refills after it erupts. Not sure if they're actually connected but this video gave me some explanation.
@JSKaufeld You are very welcome. I really need to re-do this with some added material (and a better animation), but it seems to help a fair number of people just like this. I'm glad it helped. And if they get really interested, note that you can build a working (and fairly safe!) model in your kitchen with a cheap hotplate as the heat source (see my other geyser video, "CPVC Model Geyser" for some examples).
The clearest explination ever! (Better than my teachers). Now thinking about it, why do we need school anyway? There are so many channels that do stuff better than boring teachers.
@Cozytailmom You're welcome! You might enjoy my video of how to build a model geyser then. I used to have a webpage up about it, but IU has reorganized and I've not gotten them up again yet.
@sevadar31855 I'm really happy it helps. Note that you can build model geysers using simple plumbing supplies (one of my other YT videos). I had a web page up for it, but its not active at the moment (need to get on that).
"...can erupt if you release the pressure of the cold water on the top of the system, this can occur through the pool dropping it's level, increasing it's temperature, or possibly from a lowering of barometric pressure." Note that many geysers are actually superheated at the *top* of the column... so I'm not sure if you consider this "cold water". A pool "dropping its level" has to take place through some mechanism... and spilling over can't do it.
@auburn2amd Glad you like it... in my case, it was learning how (not( to do long animations in Photoshop :). But it was actually a lot of fun drawing it all, and learning... and yes, learning about geysers and the way (we think) they function.
Trying to figure out why some geysers are inconsistent, and ascribing it to the water source or heat source being inconsistent, doesn't help a lot... it just pushes the question back to "why are the water or heat sources inconsistent?". Geysers it seems are very sensitive systems - so tiny changes (wind direction, air temperature, air pressure, etc.) can be magnified into significant differences in behavior.
@bloodandwinearered I'm glad you found it interesting and helpful. I'd really love to do a better job on this sometime, but... it seems to work pretty well as is. One word of warning - real geysers can be amazingly more subtle and complicated than this. But this gives a rough idea of at least the basic mechanism. I've been experimenting with models to try to refine some details... but it's very tricky. At least for me.
Hi, hope you are well, and thanks for this animation. I came across it because I considering making a similar animation, with my own ideas about how geysers are formed and how they might work. I agree, the physics are quite complicated to say the least and perhaps unknowable on some many levels. I'd venture to say you've correctly covered at least some of the basics of what may be going on down there, and wondered if you had ever worked on expanding this as you'd mentioned. Best regards- Rick
@TonyN737 Thank you so much for giving me that feedback. I never thought this video would be referenced nearly as often as it has been, and I'm humbled and very, VERY happy that I've been able to help out a number of people (old and young!) to get a little bit better understanding of the world around them. Thank you for letting me know. I just wish I could do these things justice... real geysers are amazing, interesting, and complex systems, and this animation just barely begins to show them.
Too much patience, probably, but I'm teaching myself to use Photoshop, and this was just one application. Each frame has between 3 and 30 some layers ("digital overlays", or in many case "underlays" to get things clipped to the conduit), but many layers (the conduit system itself for instance) are reused every time, and others are simple layers of a few brushstrokes. The average frame took about 3-5 minutes to draw... although I wasn't even that fast at first.
@maxim2465 Shown what without stopping? The animation never pauses... it's just not a completely smooth animation because I hand-drew each frame, and... smoother would have taken even more frames.
...... Nor can just heating it up (hot water exerts the very same pressure, becasue it has the same mass). Barometric pressure changes can lower the hydrostatic pressure at depth... and while there is some correlation on a few rare geysers with barometric pressure, the causative mechanism is uncertain.
In a similar fashion actually - in a 'cold water geyser', it's dissolved gases that are kept in solution due to the increased pressure, instead of water kept in a liquid due to increased pressure. But both work similarly, in that a release of pressure drives the gas in to bubbles which reduce the pressure further, leading to a runaway.
Question: at Yellowstone (Grand Geyser I think it was) the geyser was surrounded by a huge pool of water. If the water "fills" the geyser chamber then, Why does the pool surrounding the geyser completely drain down into the geyser mouth minutes before it erupts???? What's up with that?
@Skaushik98 Wonderful - I'm really glad she liked it, and hopefully learned something from it. She might like seeing the model ones I've built as well (that video explains it some more, and you get to see the boiling in detail). And, of course... you can build them yourself as well :).
@supercj8899 Well... sort of. Kinda. It's more like a pressure cooker, but instead of a lid bolted on, you have a long column of water keeping the pressure high. For a boiling pot of water, you really don't care that the top surface of the water is higher than the bottom (it's not significant). For a geyser, that difference in pressure between the top and bottom of the water column is critical. But, essentially... it really is (conceptually!) this simple.
Oh I still use the NXT extensively... including in instrumenting physical models like this (see my webpage referenced in the video). It's just this is my 1st YT video that doesn't star LEGO as a leading attraction.
Awesome video!!! Now I have a better understanding of how geysers work. Yellowstone is on my bucket list of places to visit. This is just down my ally way as I am big on Geology.
+agentM1991 Enjoy! There are lots of folks in Yellowstone who are dedicated "geyser gazers" who form a very good citizen scientist network, monitoring the geysers there.
I was thinking about why some geysers are so much more variable than others. Seems there's a few obvious variables. Either their water source is inconsistent, their heat source is inconsistent, or for some reason pressures equalize such that there is not an explosive eruption (were the ones I thought of.) I wondered about water sources and/or reservoir sizes. Seems to me a geyser could have plumbing such that incoming water filling it's reservoirs is inconsistent.
"You are correct in saying that you don't need a constriction for eruptive activity, but it is thought most geysers need one to be regular." The models are just as regular with or without one (well, actually the models are *more* regular without one). Only one geyser conduit (Old Faithful) has been imaged to any significant extent, and it *does* have a constriction. But in the majority of cases... we simply have no idea what the geometry of the system is.
Some systems don't reach a steady equilibrium - think of things like predator/prey cycles. It's a balance between water inflow and heat inflow... too much heat, and you have a steady boiling spring. Too much water, and you have a steady warm artesian spring. But somewhere in the middle (with a certain plumbing system), there is a third possibility which is stable cyclic eruptions.
Wow, great video, thank you for making this! It's so clear and concise my kid loved it and so informative it gave me a much fuller understanding of something I had vaguely understood before. Awesome!
Generally, it's due to an input of very hot steam from much deeper in the system. This heats up the water. Note that often the entire ground around and under these is already very hot.
Reservoirs and water sources: the water sources seem to be 2-fold: deep water from underground (identified by the ion ratio of various substances... research "geothermometer") as well as shallow, surface-derived waters. As to reservoir size... you have to define what you mean by "reservoir". The volume erupted? The volume erupted plus what is left over in the immediate plumbing system? The total local water table? The question needs more definition before you can look for a clear answer.
I have few qiestions. What are super heated water from below. Where it origimed and why its not hot magma from core. From where those super heated water comes. Another question what is the origin of oxygen. Do you think the oxygen origined from those bubbles from the super heated water from the imside?? Hope you eill answer soon. Thanks.
@@rodneynorman8965 But I got many answers in other videos of different subscribers. But may be you are correct. May be he stopped to add any videos or died.
I'm not dead yet ;) But, I have been busy with other things. The water is heated from below because the rocks deeper down are hot. They are essentially still hot (still cooling) from when the volcano erupted much earlier. Magma (liquid rock) is present, but deeper down - and water that drains deeper and closer to that, heats to the point of being superheated steam, and that high-pressure super-hot steam comes up. when it encounters shallow groundwater, it heats that ground water close to the boiling point. That's the source for the energy driving these eruptions. As to oxygen... that's a different subject. But there is a LOT of oxygen on Earth, locked up in rocks (as silicon dioxide, a mineral known as quartz, and others) and as water (just hydrogen and oxygen). Plants can split water in to hydrogen and oxygen and use that as a source of hydrogen... the oxygen is a 'waste product' that they release. That's the source of the Earth oxygen-rich atmosphere.
Yes, actually. Beehive geyser in Yellowstone has two clearly related outlets, and many geysers have multiple outlets. So it's not an unusual situation, and I wanted to show ONE way both could function.
Dr. Davis, this is a really nice piece that I will use to instruct my Earth Science learners. Great work! One question: Are geysers ever associated with travertines?
+Nicholas Horianopoulos I'm really glad this helps - if you want a fun project, note that you can build a model geyser with some simple materials (like a beaker, a hot plate, and some CPVC pipe).
Perhaps you should join him, it is considered that most "true" geysers have a constriction. But there are exceptions. Almost all hot springs can erupt if you release the pressure of the cold water on the top of the system, this can occur through the pool dropping it's level, increasing it's temperature, or possibly from a lowering of barometric pressure. You are correct in saying that you don't need a constriction for eruptive activity, but it is thought most geysers need one to be regular. .
"Perhaps you should join him..." Well... I have. I've reviewed the literature. I've authored a peer-reviewed paper on geyser physics and modeling. I've read old papers that show that no constriction is required, as well as recent ones. I've put constrictions in and out of models to see what changes this produced (little to none).... the conclusion seems to be a constriction is *not* necessary. Based on the evidence.
Very nice and informative video... thank you for this! Now I don't have to browse through thousands of pages on Wikipedia to get to the understanding you gave in less than 3 minutes.
Lol! I'm glad you enjoyed them, and stayed to the end to watch them! Yeah, after putting something like this together, I sometimes feel that the process was more important than the result… I have a tendency to put "interesting" commentary in a lot of my video credit crawls.
Like so many other Commenters, my kid (4 y/o girl) asked how a geyser works. I said "Well, when hot water ... uh ... boils up from ... uh ... " I know how it works but how do I explain it to a 4 y/o? ... Hey, I know, I'll look it up on UA-cam! Haha! Thanks for giving her a visual! Great job on the vid.
@yamba01 It is illegal (seriously!) to throw *anything* into a geyser in Yellowstone (and yes, they are very serious about it). So I think a ferret is right out :). As far as lowering a camera in... believe it or not, it's been done, more than a decade ago. Google "camera in old faithful kieffer" and take a look at the links. This is the only time the inside of a functioning geyser has been seen to my knowledge. It was informative.
Who is here 11 years later (2020)? Dude this animation is so cool even after 11 years!
Edit: Even in 2025 (16 YEARS LATER) people are still coming haha
Well... I, at least, am still here... although not sure why YT has disassociated all my replies from their original comments. That looks more than a little confusing.
@@brdavis5 it was like that 11 yrs ago i think
@@XandarYT here during my junior year intro to gel gen ed!
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My six year old asked me how Geysers worked, this animation was linked with Old Faithful. It was clear and simple enough for him to understand, also helped me.
My son has now shown it to his class and made a model.
Thank you very much from Australia.
AWESOME video. I always wondered how a geyser could erupt, if there was no "cork" sealing the opening. But now I get it! Thank you!
Thank you! I'll be putting up a video of an actual model (along with a few clips of real geysers), but wanted to try an animation as well, both for fun/experience, and to answer some of the questions I get. I should have smoothed out the frame transitions (like in the "sinter aging" frames early on) but didn't want to drop 100+ transition effects in iMovie.
Bit of a departure for me; no LEGO :).
Thank you! I'm glad it helped; there's a lot more to be understood, but I tried to encapsulate the basics.
I sure did get an A on that my friend, full credit mostly because of your help here, thank you.
I struggled to explain my 8 year old son how a geysir works. This really is a great way to explain how it works! Thanks for the job of making this:)
waaaw so perfect animation
Straight forward and simple.
Amazing man
2 new geysers were erupting in Oklahoma this year
Cool. Thanks for your clear and concise, and illustrated, description. This is great.
Thanks for taking something so complicated and making it so understandable. Great video. I now know how a geyser works.
Very happy to hear that :)
Fantastic animation! I’m here because of the Iceland volcano. It’s behaving like a geyser! It’s incredible!
omg man you just saved my life
because thats exactly what i need for my science exam
thanx man :)
My six-year-old is obsessed with geysers, volcanos and earth quakes right now. He loved your video. Thanks!
I went to Yellowstone and there's a hot spring near Old Faithful that slowly empties when Old Faithful is building up pressure and then refills after it erupts. Not sure if they're actually connected but this video gave me some explanation.
I also now have a better understanding of how geysers work! Thanks professor :D
@JSKaufeld You are very welcome. I really need to re-do this with some added material (and a better animation), but it seems to help a fair number of people just like this. I'm glad it helped. And if they get really interested, note that you can build a working (and fairly safe!) model in your kitchen with a cheap hotplate as the heat source (see my other geyser video, "CPVC Model Geyser" for some examples).
@Tampajoe77 Probably more than three... but a lot more got something out of this. And that, after all, was the idea :)
So if it really empties, it'd be interesting to stick a mini camera in there real quick to see what it looks inside. Or throw a ferret in there
Thanks
Beautiful description - thanks.
Perfectly detailed explaination. Awesome.
The clearest explination ever! (Better than my teachers). Now thinking about it, why do we need school anyway? There are so many channels that do stuff better than boring teachers.
@Cozytailmom You're welcome! You might enjoy my video of how to build a model geyser then. I used to have a webpage up about it, but IU has reorganized and I've not gotten them up again yet.
That was some next-level animation! It's like we were there.
@sevadar31855 I'm really happy it helps. Note that you can build model geysers using simple plumbing supplies (one of my other YT videos). I had a web page up for it, but its not active at the moment (need to get on that).
"...can erupt if you release the pressure of the cold water on the top of the system, this can occur through the pool dropping it's level, increasing it's temperature, or possibly from a lowering of barometric pressure."
Note that many geysers are actually superheated at the *top* of the column... so I'm not sure if you consider this "cold water". A pool "dropping its level" has to take place through some mechanism... and spilling over can't do it.
@auburn2amd Glad you like it... in my case, it was learning how (not( to do long animations in Photoshop :). But it was actually a lot of fun drawing it all, and learning... and yes, learning about geysers and the way (we think) they function.
Trying to figure out why some geysers are inconsistent, and ascribing it to the water source or heat source being inconsistent, doesn't help a lot... it just pushes the question back to "why are the water or heat sources inconsistent?".
Geysers it seems are very sensitive systems - so tiny changes (wind direction, air temperature, air pressure, etc.) can be magnified into significant differences in behavior.
thanx alot
@bloodandwinearered I'm glad you found it interesting and helpful. I'd really love to do a better job on this sometime, but... it seems to work pretty well as is. One word of warning - real geysers can be amazingly more subtle and complicated than this. But this gives a rough idea of at least the basic mechanism. I've been experimenting with models to try to refine some details... but it's very tricky. At least for me.
Hi, hope you are well, and thanks for this animation. I came across it because I considering making a similar animation, with my own ideas about how geysers are formed and how they might work. I agree, the physics are quite complicated to say the least and perhaps unknowable on some many levels. I'd venture to say you've correctly covered at least some of the basics of what may be going on down there, and wondered if you had ever worked on expanding this as you'd mentioned.
Best regards- Rick
i never have expanded on this... I'd still like to, just haven't had the time.@@Rick-the-Swift
@brdavis5
I sure enjoyed it.. thanks to you and those involved woot!
@TonyN737 Thank you so much for giving me that feedback. I never thought this video would be referenced nearly as often as it has been, and I'm humbled and very, VERY happy that I've been able to help out a number of people (old and young!) to get a little bit better understanding of the world around them. Thank you for letting me know.
I just wish I could do these things justice... real geysers are amazing, interesting, and complex systems, and this animation just barely begins to show them.
Thank you. A simple excellent explanation
Too much patience, probably, but I'm teaching myself to use Photoshop, and this was just one application. Each frame has between 3 and 30 some layers ("digital overlays", or in many case "underlays" to get things clipped to the conduit), but many layers (the conduit system itself for instance) are reused every time, and others are simple layers of a few brushstrokes. The average frame took about 3-5 minutes to draw... although I wasn't even that fast at first.
You did a great job on this!
@maxim2465 Shown what without stopping? The animation never pauses... it's just not a completely smooth animation because I hand-drew each frame, and... smoother would have taken even more frames.
...... Nor can just heating it up (hot water exerts the very same pressure, becasue it has the same mass). Barometric pressure changes can lower the hydrostatic pressure at depth... and while there is some correlation on a few rare geysers with barometric pressure, the causative mechanism is uncertain.
Thanks , interesting to have it visualised. But how does a cold water geyser work ?
In a similar fashion actually - in a 'cold water geyser', it's dissolved gases that are kept in solution due to the increased pressure, instead of water kept in a liquid due to increased pressure. But both work similarly, in that a release of pressure drives the gas in to bubbles which reduce the pressure further, leading to a runaway.
@aukanmeister You are very welcome - it's wonderful to hear that my very simple YT video is helping teach someone :).
What if people go near it like really close?
Question: at Yellowstone (Grand Geyser I think it was) the geyser was surrounded by a huge pool of water. If the water "fills" the geyser chamber then, Why does the pool surrounding the geyser completely drain down into the geyser mouth minutes before it erupts???? What's up with that?
Glad I could help :)
@Skaushik98 Wonderful - I'm really glad she liked it, and hopefully learned something from it. She might like seeing the model ones I've built as well (that video explains it some more, and you get to see the boiling in detail). And, of course... you can build them yourself as well :).
Great detailed animation! Thank you so much, it has to have taken ages to draw the animation...
+Mirko V Yeah… it wasn't the fastest way of doing it. but it was fun.
@supercj8899 Well... sort of. Kinda. It's more like a pressure cooker, but instead of a lid bolted on, you have a long column of water keeping the pressure high. For a boiling pot of water, you really don't care that the top surface of the water is higher than the bottom (it's not significant). For a geyser, that difference in pressure between the top and bottom of the water column is critical. But, essentially... it really is (conceptually!) this simple.
Oh I still use the NXT extensively... including in instrumenting physical models like this (see my webpage referenced in the video). It's just this is my 1st YT video that doesn't star LEGO as a leading attraction.
Very interesting - thanks for your video.
You're welcome - I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Ok thank you so much me and my family loved ur teaching TY!
Thanks it is very helpful
@ZiggyDaLizzy I would love to hear more about it (your research, if you wish) :)
Awesome video!!! Now I have a better understanding of how geysers work. Yellowstone is on my bucket list of places to visit. This is just down my ally way as I am big on Geology.
+agentM1991 Enjoy! There are lots of folks in Yellowstone who are dedicated "geyser gazers" who form a very good citizen scientist network, monitoring the geysers there.
I've been to Yellowstone - it's awesome and totally worth it. :)
One of my favorite national parks. Absolutely love it
I am totally doing a presentation on this and showing it to my family.
I was thinking about why some geysers are so much more variable than others. Seems there's a few obvious variables. Either their water source is inconsistent, their heat source is inconsistent, or for some reason pressures equalize such that there is not an explosive eruption (were the ones I thought of.) I wondered about water sources and/or reservoir sizes. Seems to me a geyser could have plumbing such that incoming water filling it's reservoirs is inconsistent.
Cute educational movie, my daughter and I enjoyed it. Thanks so much!
Hi guys
"You are correct in saying that you don't need a constriction for eruptive activity, but it is thought most geysers need one to be regular."
The models are just as regular with or without one (well, actually the models are *more* regular without one). Only one geyser conduit (Old Faithful) has been imaged to any significant extent, and it *does* have a constriction. But in the majority of cases... we simply have no idea what the geometry of the system is.
but why doesnt it find equilibrium and just constantly boil and steam somewhat instead of pulsing back and forth between nothing and then eruption?
Some systems don't reach a steady equilibrium - think of things like predator/prey cycles. It's a balance between water inflow and heat inflow... too much heat, and you have a steady boiling spring. Too much water, and you have a steady warm artesian spring. But somewhere in the middle (with a certain plumbing system), there is a third possibility which is stable cyclic eruptions.
Thanks for this :)
Wow, great video, thank you for making this! It's so clear and concise my kid loved it and so informative it gave me a much fuller understanding of something I had vaguely understood before. Awesome!
What is the reason of water from below being super heated ?
Generally, it's due to an input of very hot steam from much deeper in the system. This heats up the water. Note that often the entire ground around and under these is already very hot.
Well done! Worth the work you put into it, seriously. Now you know why the credits are so long for those animated feature films... ;-)
Very informative, cute animation!
hey liked your animation but what's a "mitake"
@LittleBritGamer You mean you're doing research on this right now?
Does the plumbing moves as continent moves or it remain constant like mentle plume
Reservoirs and water sources: the water sources seem to be 2-fold: deep water from underground (identified by the ion ratio of various substances... research "geothermometer") as well as shallow, surface-derived waters. As to reservoir size... you have to define what you mean by "reservoir". The volume erupted? The volume erupted plus what is left over in the immediate plumbing system? The total local water table? The question needs more definition before you can look for a clear answer.
What aspect of this theory do you regard as broken?
does pitch cause the heating process and can a pit form more rapidly
@NotreDameGirl77 Are you still over at ND? I'm literally down the road at IUSB... and can show you have to make a functional in-the-classroom model :)
My school research as well! Thank you!
thank you so much for this!
gey
What is the mineral called on the conduit? Centre? How do you spell it?
Thanks! Good to hear.
the coolest paint animation I have seen haha ;)
I have few qiestions. What are super heated water from below. Where it origimed and why its not hot magma from core. From where those super heated water comes. Another question what is the origin of oxygen. Do you think the oxygen origined from those bubbles from the super heated water from the imside?? Hope you eill answer soon. Thanks.
Sorry but he ain't gonna answer that question this was in 2009
@@rodneynorman8965 But I got many answers in other videos of different subscribers. But may be you are correct. May be he stopped to add any videos or died.
I'm not dead yet ;) But, I have been busy with other things.
The water is heated from below because the rocks deeper down are hot. They are essentially still hot (still cooling) from when the volcano erupted much earlier. Magma (liquid rock) is present, but deeper down - and water that drains deeper and closer to that, heats to the point of being superheated steam, and that high-pressure super-hot steam comes up. when it encounters shallow groundwater, it heats that ground water close to the boiling point. That's the source for the energy driving these eruptions.
As to oxygen... that's a different subject. But there is a LOT of oxygen on Earth, locked up in rocks (as silicon dioxide, a mineral known as quartz, and others) and as water (just hydrogen and oxygen). Plants can split water in to hydrogen and oxygen and use that as a source of hydrogen... the oxygen is a 'waste product' that they release. That's the source of the Earth oxygen-rich atmosphere.
very good, you time was not wasted...
Is there a reason there are two outlets at the top?
Yes, actually. Beehive geyser in Yellowstone has two clearly related outlets, and many geysers have multiple outlets. So it's not an unusual situation, and I wanted to show ONE way both could function.
how do you spell the mineral found in geyser plumbing systems (to help it keep compact)
Sinter, or siliceous sinter, or geyserite... it has a lot of names.
Dr. Davis, this is a really nice piece that I will use to instruct my Earth Science learners. Great work! One question: Are geysers ever associated with travertines?
+Nicholas Horianopoulos I'm really glad this helps - if you want a fun project, note that you can build a model geyser with some simple materials (like a beaker, a hot plate, and some CPVC pipe).
Might be a cool addition to the lesson on volcanoes and associated features.
Perhaps you should join him, it is considered that most "true" geysers have a constriction. But there are exceptions. Almost all hot springs can erupt if you release the pressure of the cold water on the top of the system, this can occur through the pool dropping it's level, increasing it's temperature, or possibly from a lowering of barometric pressure. You are correct in saying that you don't need a constriction for eruptive activity, but it is thought most geysers need one to be regular. .
@fireskull123456789 Glad it helped. What's your project?
"Perhaps you should join him..."
Well... I have. I've reviewed the literature. I've authored a peer-reviewed paper on geyser physics and modeling. I've read old papers that show that no constriction is required, as well as recent ones. I've put constrictions in and out of models to see what changes this produced (little to none).... the conclusion seems to be a constriction is *not* necessary. Based on the evidence.
Thanks for the education!!
Very nice and informative video... thank you for this! Now I don't have to browse through thousands of pages on Wikipedia to get to the understanding you gave in less than 3 minutes.
This really helped thank you
Did I just find this 15 yrs later?
can u tell us how the plumming system if formed?
OMG Epic MSPaint skillz! How many frames?
Very good video, but the credits were even better!
Lol! I'm glad you enjoyed them, and stayed to the end to watch them! Yeah, after putting something like this together, I sometimes feel that the process was more important than the result… I have a tendency to put "interesting" commentary in a lot of my video credit crawls.
Thank you
Thank you .. My daughter loved it
Thanks this helped me lots
Like so many other Commenters, my kid (4 y/o girl) asked how a geyser works. I said "Well, when hot water ... uh ... boils up from ... uh ... " I know how it works but how do I explain it to a 4 y/o? ... Hey, I know, I'll look it up on UA-cam! Haha! Thanks for giving her a visual! Great job on the vid.
incredible
Oh I learned something useful. problem is no heard for years about volcanic actions.. super volcano or not
@yamba01 It is illegal (seriously!) to throw *anything* into a geyser in Yellowstone (and yes, they are very serious about it). So I think a ferret is right out :). As far as lowering a camera in... believe it or not, it's been done, more than a decade ago. Google "camera in old faithful kieffer" and take a look at the links. This is the only time the inside of a functioning geyser has been seen to my knowledge. It was informative.