[Geysers] Norris The Gap

[Jerry George]

My wife and I were out on one hundred spring plain on Friday at noon. 
There was a continuous, muddy eruption in the stream just north of 
cinder pool. I had been there on Tuesday and seen no eruption. We do 
have pictures.

On Aug 12, 2006, at 11:05 AM, TSBryan at aol.com wrote:

>
> On Friday while on tour we noticed that the Gibbon River at Elk Park 
> was clear in the morning but quite muddy in the mid-afternoon. There 
> had been no rain. So thinking that "something had happened" at Norris, 
> I went up there early this morning, Saturday, August 12.
>  
> There has been no disturbance. Indeed, a great many of the features in 
> Back Basin either have clear water at a low level, or no water at all. 
> Yellow Funnel Spring, as one example, is active as a steam vent. The 
> largest eruption seen in that area was from one of the new vents 
> across the boardwalk from Pearl, which was (probably) perpetual with 
> splashes 6 to 8 feet high and very heavy overflow... Steamboat was 
> mostly north function. Echinus was overflowing at 0710, and 
> overflowing still (or again) at 0905... A view from below the Museum 
> gave me no reason to go down into Porcelain Basin. Because...
>  
> At 0744, from near Porkchop, I saw a very large steam cloud rising 
> from the area of The Gap. I saw it again at 0758, and that's when I 
> decided to make the trek out there. What I found is that one of the 
> larger features near the far southwest end of The Gap is erupting 
> quite powerfully. In sum, either directly or via i.e. steam clouds, I 
> saw eruptions from it at 0744, 0758, 0810 (on site, d = 2m 20s), 0826 
> (on site, d = 2m 05s), 0843 (in view at a distance), and 0858. The 
> eruptions I had in sight included bursts at least 25 and likely over 
> 30 feet high. The water was clear. (Is this what was called "Elk 
> Geyser" a few years ago? I don't think so.)
>  
> Another small spring in The Gap also proved to be a geyser, with 2-3 
> foot eruptions repeating every 2 minutes or so and lasting 15 or 20 
> seconds. Of course, there were many perpetual spouters out there along 
> with a few thousand bubblers.
>  
> Cinder Pool was about 1/3 covered with cinders.
> --------
> Yesterday on the tour (I was a passenger, Northern Loop) I saw a 
> spring a short distance upstream and across the river from Beryl 
> Spring splashing probably 2 feet high. Today it was barely bubbling.
>  
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Jerry George
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