Huge Geysers in Oklahoma
We’ve all heard about oil geysers, spurting up suddenly out of the ground, but nine-foot-high geysers spewing natural gas have suddenly sprung up in Oklahoma, and geologists aren’t sure why.
Tony Thornton writes in The Oklahoman that, according to a local geologist, these are caused by gas leaking out of natural rock fractures, although he has never seen geysers like this before. When a gas bubble is freed from its reservoir, it rises. The gas expands as it rises, causing the geyser. It dissipates quickly once it hits the air. There’s not much that can be done to control them. It’s a shame when natural gas is wasted this way instead of being sold.
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