[Geysers] Mystery geyser

[Lee_Whittlesey at nps.gov]

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



                                                                                                                                   
                      Karen Webb                                                                                                   
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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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