[Geysers] molten sulfur hot springs

[Carrie Guiles]

There are a couple of springs (unnamed) near Shallow Creek in Hot Spring 
Basin that are spewing up what look like sulfur nodules - they are spherical 
and have little spicular bits all around them. these do not stay at the 
surface like Cinder's cinders (ha) instead, they either get spewed out onto 
the surrounding mud or get recycled into the pools.
I have attached 4 photos of these - hopefully they will not overwhelm 
everyone's inbox.
You can see the spicular bits in the water in one photo, piled on the mud in 
another, in my hand (feeble attempt at a close-up) and an overview of the 
pools.
-Carrie


>From: TSBryan at aol.com
>Reply-To: geyser observation reports <geysers at wwc.edu>
>To: geysers at wwc.edu
>Subject: Re: [Geysers] molten sulfur hot springs
>Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:21:52 EDT
>
>Steve Miller wrote: "About 1 mile SW of Nympha Lake is a group of thermal
>features. At least 2 of the pools in this area have "some" sulfur nodules
>floating on the surface.
>one pool is very large (30' x 50') and looks to have at least 3 vents 
>feeding
>it. The nodules seem to orginate from a deeper vent at on end of the pool."
>
>I say... this is probably identical to the spring Jeff Cross wrote about, 
>as
>the "Thermal Area West of Norris" is in fact only a short distance 
>southwest
>of Nymph Lake.
>
>And Scott Kronholm wrote: "I know of one other spring that is similar.  It 
>is
>located in the Norris Geyser Basin.  If I remember correctly, I think it 
>was
>quite a distance to the northwest of the porcelain basin area.  If i find 
>out
>anything else I will post it."
>
>I say... this sounds suspiciously like Cinder Pool itself. Having been out
>"northwest of the porcelain basin [sic] area" a great many times, I am 100%
>convinced that Cinder is the only spring out there that bears sulfur 
>nodules.
>
>Scott Bryan


>_______________________________________________
>Geysers mailing list
>Geysers at wwc.edu
>https://mailman.wwc.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: HSBNN563.jpg
Type: image/pjpeg
Size: 127072 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: </geyser-list/attachments/20051103/1c87b7e3/attachment.bin>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: HSBNN563_564_BUCKYBALLS.jpg
Type: image/pjpeg
Size: 333237 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: </geyser-list/attachments/20051103/1c87b7e3/attachment-0001.bin>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: HSBNN564.jpg
Type: image/pjpeg
Size: 501415 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: </geyser-list/attachments/20051103/1c87b7e3/attachment-0002.bin>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: HSBNN563_NW.jpg
Type: image/pjpeg
Size: 426870 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: </geyser-list/attachments/20051103/1c87b7e3/attachment-0003.bin>