[Geysers] October Sput/ Lynn Stephens's article

[Ron Keam]

The article by Lynn Stephens was particularly interesting to me 
because I have from time to time sounded hot springs etc in New 
Zealand thermal areas.  This has not been a systematic activity, and 
the early soundings, starting in 1951, were curiosity driven and 
opportunistic.  However, soundings of the two hot lakelets at 
Waimangu were done more persistently and the methods evolved.  A 
scientific paper was prepared describing the work, and posslibly 
because of its rather unusual topic it was selected for reproduction 
on Te Ara web-site (Royal Society of New Zealand on-line 
encyclopedia).  For anyone who might be interested to read this paper 
the URL is http://www.rsnz.org/publish/nzjgg/notable/Keam1980.pdf

Note that the bathymetric maps as presented in this paper are very 
much simplified and that the full maps of the bathymetry of Frying 
Pan Lake and Inferno Crater Lake are on large separate individual 
sheets.  In the references in the on-line paper they are stated to be 
"in press" because this descriptive paper was prepared before the 
maps appeared.  If anyone would like the references to the maps 
themselves I could provide details.  (They are not available on-line.)


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