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This paper is a study of variations in the behavior and physico-chemical characteristics of solutions in the geyser that formed in 2008 in the place of a pulsating spring in Uzon Caldera. We describe the features of this geyser’s activity in 2009 and 2010. Overheating of water is for the first time described, rising to reach100.13°C at the mouth of a geyser during an eruption. We discuss the compositions of the solutions and free gases in the geyser, the possible source depths of the solutions, and the causes of geyser generation.
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Original Russian Text © G.A. Karpov, A.G. Nikolaeva, V.N. Akimov, V.F. Gal’chenko, 2012, published in Vulkanologiya i Seismologiya, 2012, No. 3, pp. 3–13.
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Karpov, G.A., Nikolaeva, A.G., Akimov, V.N. et al. The evolution of the behavior and physico-chemical characteristics of solutions in the new geyser in Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka. J. Volcanolog. Seismol. 6, 131–141 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0742046312030050
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