[Geysers] Grand Geyser - ten bursts?

[MA Bellingham]

Good research Dick!  And the Warnoxious brothers recall getting out of the 
car at Castle to see a Sixteen burst Grand!

MA


>From: "Richard/Marion Powell" <rlpowell at indiana.edu>
>Reply-To: geyser observation reports <geysers at wwc.edu>
>To: "geyser observation reports" <geysers at wwc.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Geysers] Grand Geyser - ten bursts?
>Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:57:31 -0500
>
>MA:
>     I remember a GOSA "show and tell" a few years ago where Dave Goldberg
>presented a tape of eleven or more burst from Grand.
>     Scott Bryan (1955) Geysers of Yellowstone, p. 74 mentions 11 bursts in
>an exceptional eruption in 1983.  Is this the eruption Goldberg recorded?
>     J.S. Reinhart (1974) Geysers; Trans. American Geophysical Union, pp.
>1052-1062, states on page 1057 that "At Grand, the jets can be interrupted
>as many as twenty times".
>     E. T. Allen and A. L. Gay (1935) Hot Springs of the Yellowstone 
>National
>Park, p. 164, state "In a phenomenal eruption in July 1928, witnessed by 
>the
>writers, there were 29 distinct outbursts, ..., the whole active period
>covering 33 minutes."
>     G. D. Marler, (no date, but pre 1973), Inventory of Thermal Features,
>etc., USGS GD 73-018, transcripted from microfiche by Lynn Stephens for
>GOSA, indicated )p. 113) that the number of separate eruptions during an
>active phase ranged from "6 for a minimum, with 45 eruptions being the most
>observed to date".  Grand was dormant for "the rest of the year" following
>the 17 August 1959 Hebgen Lake Earthquake.  The next eruption was 19 Feb.
>1960, followed by 28 eruptions to the end of the year (Marler, p. 114).
>     There's more of interest in the Marler report, but I digress.
>                             Dick Powell
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "MA Bellingham" <mabdepot at msn.com>
>To: <geysers at wwc.edu>
>Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 12:18 AM
>Subject: [Geysers] Grand Geyser - ten bursts?
>
>
> > Not bursts, but "spurts"!
> >
> >>From The Brooklyn (NY) Eagle, August 1883....
> >
> > " The Grand, which we saw twice during an eruption, has no raised cones,
> > but
> > merely a depressed basin.  It is active about twice a day, and sends 
>water
> > nearly 200 feet. It usually makes about seven spurts, with nearly a 
>minute
> > intervening between each one. I saw this geyser make ten spurts, but 
>this
> > was more than is usually set down in the programme. "
> >
> > See you on the boardwalks,
> > MA
> >
> >
> >
> > M.A. Bellingham
> > mabdepot at msn.com
> >
> >
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