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Hot Springs

A hot spring forms when groundwater is heated by a nearby body of magma or by hot rock deep underground. The hot water rises to the surface and collects in a natural pool. (Groundwater is water that has seeped into the spaces among rocks deep beneath Earth's surface.) Water from hot springs may contain dissolved gases and other substances from deep within Earth.


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Geysers

Sometimes, rising hot water and steam become trapped underground in a narrow crack. Pressure builds until the mixture suddenly sprays above the surface as a geyser. A geyser

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is a fountain of water and steam that erupts from the ground

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