[Geysers] Mystery geyser

[Dave TAYLOR]

Lee,
I'm confused by something here.  In the second paragraph, you list
Joseph's Coat Springs as also being officially know as Orange Rock
Springs.  However, there is an Orange Rock Springs on Wapiti trail,
which is often considered the jumping off point for the bushwhack to
4B1, Joseph's Coat springs.  With these two areas being separated by
roughly two miles, I don't think that they are part of the same complex.
 How is it possible then that two distinct features have the same name
(Orange Rock springs), or am I missing something?

Please keep in mind that I'm posing this question out of my own
ignorance, and in no way is this a challenge to your authority on the
matter.  Just the opposite- it seems to me that you are the only one who
could possibly shed some light on this apparent dichotomy.  

In other words, 'Help us Obi-wan Lee-Whittlesey, you're our only
hope!'.

Thanks,
Dave Taylor

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx


>>> Lee_Whittlesey at nps.gov 03/31/2005 8:37:28 AM >>>
Yes, this photo seems to be of Crater Hills Geyser. Don't forget that
Crater Hills Geyser is one of those thermal features that actually has
TWO
names. Its other name is officially approved with a USBGN decision and
the
name is SULPHUR SPRING.

History, or usage, or the USBGN's approval, or all three have
sometimes
combined to leave us with two names for single features such as
Steamboat
Geyser (New Crater Geyser), Monument Geyser (Thermos Bottle Geyser),
Oblique Geyser (Avalanche Geyser), Joseph's Coat Springs (Orange
Rock
Springs), Lover's Leap (Rock Point), Queen's Laundry (Red Terrace
Spring),
Teton Hill (Lookout Terrace), Mask Geyser (Bellefontaine Geyser), and
perhaps others that I have not thought of.

Even stranger are two-name cases like Old Bath Lake, Restless Geyser,
Diana
Spring, and Dragon Geyser, where the official name is not the one
entrenched in local usage (see respectively Ranger Pool, Atomizer
Geyser,
Cleopatra Spring, and Aurum Geyser). Recall the Board's rule that
one
cannot ignore official names. But here that is difficult, because of
the
Board's other rule instructing us not to ignore local usage.

There is always interesting stuff in the place names arena.

Lee Whittlesey
Park Historian, NPS
Yellowstone National Park



                                                                       
                                                           
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Karen Webb
    CHG was my guess also, but I'm wrong with these so much I
hesitated
to comment.  If it's the same CHG, it looks a lot like the Brain Coral
in the Xanth books on those rare occasions the water levels lower.
Karen

Freund, Udo wrote:

> Despite rumors to the contrary, I wasn't around in '34 to have read
> that article's initial appearance.
>
> Methinks its' initials are CHG.  There was some debate a few years
> back regarding whether it is a true geyser because it may be
partially
> gas driven and not totally steam driven.  True?  At least this
"thing"
> erupts frequently.
>
> Udo Freund
>
>
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>     *From:* geysers-bounces at wwc.edu [mailto:geysers-bounces at wwc.edu]

>     *On Behalf Of *TSBryan at aol.com 
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, March 29, 2005 7:18 AM
>     *To:* geysers at wwc.edu 
>     *Subject:* [Geysers] Mystery geyser
>
>     OK, here is yet another one (embedded rather than as
attachment).
>     This photo was taken on October 17, 1931. It was _probably_
taken
>     by Dr. E. T. Allen. Some of you will probably recognize the
>     setting. For others, a possible hint lies in the fact that Allen
>     communicated with people named Nolan and Anderson, and they
wrote
>     an article that appeared in the Americal Journal of Science in
1934.
>
>     Scott Bryan
>
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