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How common are underwater geysers?


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How common are underwater geysers? Under what conditions do the form? Where are they most common?

 

 

Underwater geysers? In the sense of what we see on land as geysers I would say there are none but underwater the mechanisms that would produce a geyser produce what are called smokers where super critical water is released from the mid ocean ridges.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_vent

 

I don't think they pulse or emit steam like land geysers but they are the same or a very similar process....

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