"Peculiar" New Geyser Erupts in Russia

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	"Peculiar" New Geyser Erupts in Russia

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7-11-2009 2:07 PM

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Two years after that devastating loss, "this year a new miracle has appeared in another part of the reserve," WWF's Alexandra Filatkina said in a statement.
"We have the rare opportunity to witness these natural processes as they become history."

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7-11-2009 2:25 PM

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wow, that looks my lawn on the fourth of July

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<B>July 7, 2009—</B>When a new geyser erupted recently in <A href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_russia.html">Russia</A>, a startled observer shouted what would become the geyser's official name: "Prikolny," or "Peculiar."
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The steamy fount is the first new geyser to appear on the country's remote Kamchatka Peninsula since the 1960s. (See <A href="http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/map-machine#s=r&c=55.92458580482952,%20150.77636718750003&z=4">a regional map.</A>) 
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The liquid from its 16.4-foot-tall (5-meter-tall) fountain is recycled when it falls back into the earth—the same water gets spit back out again every 6 to 20 minutes (above, the geyser erupts in an undated photo).
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No one knows what caused the geyser's formation, but theories include rising water levels in the area or a pulsating hot spring that switched roles.
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Peculiar sits in the Kronotsky Nature Reserve about 8.7 miles (14 kilometers) from the Valley of Geysers. Eurasia's only geyser field, the valley once had a hundred of the features—until <A href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070605-geyser-valley.html">a landslide wiped out half of them in June 2007</A>.
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