[Geysers] Biscuit Basin names

[Paul Behunin]

I waited to see if anyone would come up with the following suggestion, and 
was surprised when no one did. How about "Granite Geyser" for the new 
(currently) bicolored geyser? It's a mineral (in keeping with the mineral 
themed names in Biscuit Basin) that is most commonly black, grey and white. 
Nice alliteration too. "Salt and Pepper" would tie into the culinary theme 
of the two Mustard Springs and Cauliflower Geyser. We could also try 
something completely different (like Avoca Spring), such as "Domino Geyser" 
or "Zebra Geyser," because dominoes are commonly black and white, as are 
zebras. However, bearing in mind that the darker part may change, I would 
humbly suggest naming the feature after the Gemini twins in Greek mythology, 
"Castor and Pollux." The double nature of the geyser suggests twins, and 
many of the myths (not all) have one twin being mortal (Castor), while the 
other was immortal (Pollux). Twins, yet decidedly different. It is pretty 
obvious that the clear vent would probably be designated "Pollux," but it 
may be better not to make this distinction and let the visitors make up 
their own minds which is which. If the dark part clears, we would still have 
a twin based and therefore appropriate name for another of Yellowstone's 
fascinating geysers.......as long as both vents stay active!

Paul V. Behunin



----Original Message Follows----
From: TSBryan at aol.com
Reply-To: geyser observation reports <geysers at wwc.edu>
To: geysers at wwc.edu
Subject: Re: [Geysers] Biscuit Basin names
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 23:43:07 EDT


In a message dated 7/17/2006 7:54:22 PM Mountain Standard Time,
geyser1 at netzero.net writes:

Some of  the more well known minerals of the garnet group include almandine,
pyrope,  grossular, andradite, and spessartine.  Of these, andradite 
commonly
occurs in darker shades of brown and black.  The others are commonly used  
in
the gem trade and tend to be more colorful (reds, oranges,  pinks).


Well, then there is the iron-iron garnet, melanite, which is truly black...
But as for that spring at Biscuit, probably we need to wait on a name, or
simply  come up with something "generic" as 1) the spring might not persist; 
and
2) the  "black" part likely will not stay black.

Scott Bryan


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