[Geysers] Cones

[Karen Low]

I'd add Fortress to your list in Lower Geyser Basin.  Also Monument Geyser Basin.
 
At West Thumb, isn't Fishing Cone a geyser?  It most definitely has a cone, as does Big Cone, and Lakeshore Geyser.
 
I guess partially it may be in how one defines substantial, as well as freestanding.  Is Mortar not on your list because it isn't quite freestanding?
 
Karen Low

--- On Wed, 1/14/09, Jeff Cross <Jeff.Cross at wallawalla.edu> wrote:

From: Jeff Cross <Jeff.Cross at wallawalla.edu>
Subject: [Geysers] Cones
To: "geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu" <geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu>
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 9:27 PM

How many substantial free-standing geyserite cones exist in Yellowstone?

Upper Geyser Basin:

Old Faithful
Beehive
Lion
Castle
Giant
Grotto
Rocket
Mortar

Lower Geyser Basin:

White Dome
Pink Cone
Jet
Clepsydra

Lone Star Geyser Basin:

Lone Star Geyser

Shoshone Geyser Basin:

Union Geyser
Minute Man Geyser

Heart Lake Geyser Basin:

Puffing Spring

Are there really none at Midway, Norris, Gibbon or West Thumb?

It is interesting to note that of the cones I have listed (16), 8 of them (50%)
are in the Upper Geyser Basin.

One might also ask how to define a "cone."  I am listing only those
cones that have an arresting appearance.

Low, mound-shaped masses of sinter, like those around Bulger Geyser, seem very
different, almost as if they formed through a different process.  Therefore I
did not include them in the list.  It would appear that cones are fairly rare.

Any thoughts?

Jeff Cross
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