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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Scientists are as susceptible as anyone to the spectacular and beautiful eruptions of geysers. Volcanologists, though, have a special
interest in geysers as laboratories where they can study processes that might also occur in volcanoes1. Writing in the _Journal of Geophysical Research_2, Kedar _et al._ report the most
detailed observations yet of vibrations produced by Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park, made with the goal of understanding the phenomenon of volcanic tremor. These new
observations confirm that the main source of Old Faithful's noises is the collapse of bubbles in its water column, the same process that makes a teakettle sing. On the other hand, they
show no evidence of acoustic organ-pipe resonance in the geyser's water column, a process central to most models of volcanic tremor. This is a preview of subscription content, access
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