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Photo Essay
Saratoga Springs – 3

Photograph by Rajender Krishan, July 2, 2005

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The spouter is an example of how the waters flowing beneath the earth through cavities and channels of limestone and dolomite have found their way through a fault that connects with the surface. Naturally formed carbon dioxide gas pushes its way to the surface with the water, thus forming a pulsating spouter.

The mound that forms at the base of the spouter is composed of tufa or travertine carbonates, deposited from the water flowing over it. This tufa builds up at a rate of two tons per 1,000,000 gallons of water, or at a rate of 2 inches per year.

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