{"id":2453,"date":"2023-09-05T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2023-09-04T15:35:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T21:35:44","slug":"observations-for-2023-september-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/2023\/09\/05\/observations-for-2023-september-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Observations for 2023 September 04"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Visited our first Iceland thermal features today. Gunnuhver sits in the middle of a production geothermal field. The activity consists of a perpetual spouter which has jets of water up to 8 meters high. The vent is obscured by the remnants of a boardwalk which it destroyed earlier this century.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Nearby is a large mound of siliceous sinter. It's old and heavily eroded, but there are still rock fragments featuring flow patterns and terracettes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To the west of the recent volcanic activity is Selt\u00fan, south of Kleifarvatn. There's a large parking lot along with plumbing facilities which may or may not be open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next to the parking lot is a large muddy spring which was erupting gray water to about 1\/2 meter. A boardwalk trail continues up the hillside past more large acid sulphate springs and numerous small spouters.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Across the road is another small thermal area consisting of two large mudpot craters. They were more of a pool than a mudpot, probably thanks to the heavy rains in the couple of days prior to our visit.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Behind the plumbing facilites is an old geothermal well. When I first looked at it, there was occasional noise coming from below ground as it there was some sort of eruption going on. About twenty minutes later, I stopped by again and the feature was quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Visited our first Iceland thermal features today. Gunnuhver sits in the middle of a production geothermal field. The activity consists of a perpetual spouter which has jets of water up to 8 meters high. The vent is obscured by the remnants of a boardwalk which it destroyed earlier this century. Nearby is a large mound … Continue reading \"Observations for 2023 September 04\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[98,4,72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}