Word: geysers
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...gases was detected last March 7, when the seismometers left on the moon were registering strong rumblings in the lunar interior. Convinced that the timing of the seismic activity and ion flows was more than coincidental, Freeman concluded that water may well have burst forth from the moon in geyser-like eruptions, an event that would have been recorded by the seismometers...
...concept was developed by Physicist John S. Rinehart of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who has been comparing the past activities of Old Faithful and two other famous geysers-Yellowstone's Riverside and Old Faithful in Calistoga, Calif.-with earthquake records dating back more than a century. He found that although geysers are commonly thought to erupt with clocklike regularity, their timing begins to change as the stresses that lead to quakes begin increasing in the earth around them; Yellowstone's Old Faithful speeds up any time from two to four years before a major quake within...
...Alaska before the quake, Rinehart speculates, traveled through the earth at a rate of from three to six miles per day, eventually reaching as far south as Yellowstone National Park. There they put increasing pressure on the hot-water "plumbing" of Old Faithful. As a result, the geyser began spouting with increasing frequency until the quake finally relieved the strain, allowing Old Faithful to resume a more leisurely pace...
...endowing a university chair or a foundation. Not George T. Delacorte. The 76-year-old founder of the Dell Publishing Co. seeks to perpetuate his memory in a more spectacular way: through a series of monuments, each splashier than the last. The splashiest to date is the Delacorte Geyser at the tip of Manhattan's Welfare Island, which was tested last week for the first time...
...ionized gases, it streaked away. Barely 10 minutes had elapsed after lift-off when it was announced that Poseidon had sped to a perfect splashdown, 1,150 miles away down the Atlantic missile range. Then came the taller, three-stage Minuteman III. Launched at 4:30 p.m. in a geyser of orange flame, it raced 5,000 miles to another brilliant on-target splashdown near Ascension Island in the South Atlantic...