Geyser Piip is the lowest geyser at the base of the Rozovy (Pink) Cone geyser. It was first described by S.I. Naboko in 1951 and named Lower Shchelevoy (Crack) (Naboko, 1954). The next description of this geyser, but under the name Lower Dwarf, was made in 1960 (Raik, 1963). In 2016, it was named Piip, in honor of Boris Ivanovich Piip - Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, founder and 1st Director of the Institute of Volcanology, researcher of thermal springs of Kamchatka (Belousov, Belousova, 2020).
The geyser's channel has the appearance of a crack and is located 1.5 m to the left and below the channel of the geyser Under Rozovy Cone. The outpouring occurs at the base of the geyser (below the crack) and fountaining - from several places in the crack, forming 2 jets 1 m and 2 m high. The geyser's activity is very stable: long fountaining (15 min) and a long period (5-6 hours).
In 2014, the channel of geyser Piip was covered with mudflow deposits, but in 2016 it continued to operate in the same mode.
References
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