
While relaxing at the geyser fountain, enjoying its splashing sound and the sun-light reflections in the falling water droplets, one's thought may go back in time and imagine (diving) this place during the days of Lake Lahontan: instead of ejecting into the air, the hot and calcium-rich water would have mixed with the lake water and initiated chemical reactions causing calcium carbonate (CaCO3) precipitation and tufa formation.
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