[Geysers] 1955 Nevada map

[Paul Strasser]

It looks a little like 42W (not 24W), but I don't recall the
vegetation-covered area immediately behind it.  But then, I observed it in
the mid-80s, thirty years after this photo was taken.  The terrace was quite
active for most of this time, so changes in runoff and heat could affect the
vegetation.  

 

I saw naturally occurring eruptions from 42w over 25 feet high, and when it
erupted in conjunction with the long fissure just to its east (I think it
was #11) the effect was one of the most remarkable of all geysers I've seen
- a sheet of water about eight feet high and 20 feet long, and next to it an
Aurum-like geyser.  'twas a very cool effect.

 

Paul Strasser

 

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Subject: [Geysers] 1955 Nevada map

 

Nice photo of a geyser at Steamboat Hot Springs. So what geysers is it? I'll
be interested in hearing what Paul and Suzanne Strasser have to say (did
anybody else now on this list ever see a Steamboat geyser?), but here is my
guess:

 

The map is the 1955 edition, so no doubt was actually produced during 1954.
The eruption therefore must have occurred sometime in or before 1954.

 

The eruption is remarkably tall. How tall? The geyser is well beyong the
person, so I am guessing the eruption to be not less than 20 feet high, and
probably well over that.

 

Other than the really big geysers seen in the 1850-1870 period (up to 60
feet or more), the largest have generally been 12 to 15 feet, the notable
exception being Spring #12, which Don White documented to 25 feet in
December 1949 to January 1951. OOOOh, right time frame. There were other
geysers then, too, but the largest (#13 and #24w) reached that 12 feet or
so.

 

Well, anyhow, looking at the background in the photo, the view is torard the
west. So I thinmk the eruption shows #24w. Damn, it was nice!

 

Scott Bryan

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