What’s part geyser, part mud pot, and all creeping, unstoppable natural disaster? The Niland Geyser, known as the world’s only moving mud spring. Dianna explores this geological mystery in the video above. Although the mud spring has been known for years, it was only in 2016 that it started moving toward railroad tracks and a state highway. So far engineering efforts to stop it have failed, so engineers are instead working to mitigate its effects on infrastructure.
That’s a tall order when dealing with a pit of unknown depth that’s constantly bubbling with deadly carbon dioxide. The spring managed to move past a 75-foot-deep wall and, on another occasion, sent heavy drilling mud flying skyward from its built-up pressure. Check out the full video to learn more. (Image and video credit: Physics Girl)
Carl Conners
Used to set decoys up across from Wister 35 years ago when the mound was gushing small amounts of water out and it was up against the northeast duck club on the west side of the Gillespie road.stationary for years and then it began its southward movement.
God is probably the only known geologist to explain how, why or to answer the cause.
Seismic or thermo activity, certainly played a large part.
But did the steam wells extract-
ing over the last 3 decades have a impact to what we are seeing currently and witnessing the power of nature that man is just putting on bandaids as nothing else can stop this giesers March south.