[Geysers] Miscellaneous geyser report

[carolyn loren]

On June 16, there was both a clear and a muddy eruption from the 
near-trailhead feature (now Mercury?).

Carolyn/OFVC


>From: "Graham Meech" <meechg at verizon.net>
>Reply-To: geyser observation reports <geysers at wwc.edu>
>To: "'geyser observation reports'" <geysers at wwc.edu>
>Subject: [Geysers] Miscellaneous geyser report
>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:44:18 -0400
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>Here's my last post for this trip.
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>On Friday June 9th, I had a drive by sighting of Mercury Geyser at the
>Biscuit Basin trailhead.  There seemed to be more volume to the eruption
>than I remember before but since my trip was a short one I didn't get to
>spend more time there or get a closed interval on it.
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>Chromatic was in overflow all the time I was in the park (6/9-6/13).
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>Bulger Geyser was having a lot of small splashes and I saw one major on
>6/10, duration >5m.
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>Up at the Grand group, On 6/11, West Triplet erupted at 2047 for less than 
>1
>minute then drained.  Two minutes after West Triplet, the Sputniks erupted
>at 2049 throwing up black water for less than a minute before they stopped
>too.  Then Grand erupted 17 minutes after the Sputniks at 2106, G1Q.  One
>other day (I can't find it in my notes) Turban had a 26m interval and then 
>a
>28m interval that lead to Grand's eruption.  Is this a D1D0 eruption?
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>On 6/12 I went to watch Fountain and saw fairly 'normal' behavior (Spasm
>erupting and Fountain started from a fairly high pool level).  Jet 
>intervals
>were long (17, 20, and 15m) prior to Fountain at 1135, d-34m.  Jets
>intervals dropped to 2-4 minutes once Fountain started.  Clepsydra's steam
>vent was active at 1152 till 1219 (10 minutes after Fountain finished).
>Clepsydra then paused for 4 minutes at 1226 (17 minutes after Fountain
>ended).  Mornings Thief was active during Fountains eruption and it was 
>hard
>to see due to the wind direction.  The biggest bursts I saw were about 10'.
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>In Biscuit Basin, I saw one 89m closed interval for Silver Globe Slit
>Geyser.  The durations were 3m and 4m20s.  Avoca Spring was active,
>continuously splashing within the crater and throwing up thin spikes of
>water up to about 8' sometimes.  Hard to photograph due to the steam and
>small amount of water it was spitting out.  I watched it for over 2 hours
>with no significant increase or decrease in activity.
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>Oblong was quite frequent for the whole trip, with the shortest intervals
>around 3 hours and most less than 5.  So as I was at Giant a lot I got to
>see a couple of Oblongs close up most days.
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>That's it until September.  It was nice to get a short trip to Yellowstone,
>but as always it was not long enough!
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>See you on the boardwalks Labor Day weekend.
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>Graham.
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