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Geysir (the Great Geysir) may be the most famous geyser in the world, and is our tenth stop (10) in Fig. 4.1. The Geysir area is also located in Fig. 2.2. Geysir is the nameshake of all erupting (gushing) hot springs : they are referred to as geysers. The Great Geysir and the nearby Strokkur (and occasionally some other hot springs in the same area) are the only erupting hot springs in Europe . The Great Geysir is hardly active now; it erupts very rarely—only a few times each year—and the height of the fountain or water column during eruption is normally less than 10 m. This is considerably less, both as regards fountain height and, in particular, eruption frequency than that of the nearby geysir Strokkur .
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Gudmundsson, A. (2017). Geysir. In: The Glorious Geology of Iceland's Golden Circle. GeoGuide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55152-4_7
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