[Geysers] Sput comments

[Mike Keller]

To clarify-"a few hours after Grand" was always before Grand had refilled.
Sometimes it was during Vent and Turban, other times it was after they quit
their long eruption post Grand, but it was always after Grand.  I am not
saying it does this all the time, just the time I have seen it.

 

As for Key versus Shoe, I saw Key erupt in 1988.  The first eruption went
over the trail at an angle and reached about 10 feet.  It was muddy, chunky,
and stank.  The next few eruptions reached from 1-4 feet, each coming about
an hour apart, and steadily got smaller and smaller.  Both the upper and
lower vent erupted.  Key is the double vented feature about halfway between
Economic and "Topsoil".  Shoe is the small depression closer to the hillside
than the trail.  There is a third vent sometimes with water in it between
Key and "Topsoil" that I have never seen erupt.

 

MK

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Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 5:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [Geysers] Sput comments

 

In a message dated 7/1/2005 12:14:42 AM Mountain Standard Time,
KSCOPE_YNP at peoplepc.com writes:

For what it is worth, I have seen "Topsoil" splash/bubble like this several
times over the years, most of them a few hours after Grand has erupted.

I wonder if Mike misstated in some fashion -- or at least, define "a few
hours after Grand" which could as easily be a few hours before, or between
or..........? This year's occasion when I saw the biggest splashes (again,
perhaps up to 1 foot) was right after Grand -- Vent and Turban were still
going.

 

Item #2 -- I've never been clear on the Key versus Shoe business, but has
anybody else had the idea that Key is that (presently) orange thing that is,
indeed, shaped like a Key much more than it is like a shoe AND that Shoe
was/is that smaller hole that is closer to Grand?

 

Scott Bryan

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