[Geysers] Avoca Spring

[Pat Snyder]

Thanks, Lynn!
I must get a copy of Wonderland Nomenclature one of these days.
Pat Snyder


On Jun 3, 2008, at 6:01 PM, Lynn Stephens wrote:

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>> From: TSBryan at aol.com
>> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 22:40:28 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [Geysers] Avoca Spring
>> To: geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu
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>> In a message dated 6/2/2008 5:51:33 PM Mountain Daylight Time, riozafiro at comcast.net 
>>  writes:
>> Avoca means "It leads" in Spanish (from the verb avocar, to lead),  
>> and
>> whether or not that is the reason for the spring's name, it certainly
>> has taken the lead over from the Silver Globes, and although there is
>> water in that system, I didn't see anything erupt in about 30 minutes
>> of observation.
>> I'll have to go up to take a look at Avoca, because this activity  
>> is totally different from what I saw in April-early May when Silver  
>> Globe was high and Avoca was a quiet steam vent.
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>> As for the name -- who knows? Years ago, in the course of a guided  
>> Biscuit Basin walk ("Silver Globes, Sapphires, and Other Gems"), I  
>> had a visitor tell me about Avoca Spring in Ireland. Not far from  
>> Dublin, it was said to be the meeting camping and parley place, the  
>> one place in Ireland where competing kings (dukes, chiefs,  
>> whatever) could meet in peace.
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>> Scott Bryan
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> Per Lee Whittlesey in Wonderland Nomenclature:
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> The name Avoca was given by Weed sometime 1884-87 for the mustard- 
> like color of the spring's deposits.
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> with this footnote for citation
> NA, RG 57, Field Notebooks, Walter Weed notebook, Box 56, Vol. II,  
> 1883, #3899-B, p. 49.  The name Avoca is written into this notebook  
> in different ink, apparently added later.  See also Box 48, 1888,  
> #3864-B, p. c; and Box 52, vol. XVII, 1885, #3893-N, p. 63.
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> Lynn Stephens
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