[Geysers] Geyser known along Madison River near campground?
Bruce Jensen
bpnjensen at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 27 18:19:41 PST 2009
--- On Tue, 1/27/09, TSBryan at aol.com <TSBryan at aol.com> wrote:
> From: TSBryan at aol.com <TSBryan at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [Geysers] Geyser known along Madison River near campground?
> To: geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu
> Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 7:30 AM
> First, I believe that latitude should read 38' rather
> than 33', which places
> the location as stated (33' being in Sentinel Meadow).
>
> I certainly know of no eruptive record for any of those
> springs along the
> river below the Madison Campground. There can be, I think,
> little doubt but that
> those springs are related to the Terrace Springs, just up
> the road to the
> north. Those springs are Yellowstone-cool, with
> temperatures only a little
> above 60 deg C (140 deg F), and in my experience (and I
> haven't been to these
> springs in many years) these by the campground are cooler
> still. The "eruption"
> visible at Terrace Spring itself is entirely (or almost
> entirely) due to the
> evolution of carbon dioxide.
>
> With that, if there was any sort of eruption from the
> spring near the
> campground, then I'd bet it was from CO2. But as I
> said, I've never heard of such a
> thing.
>
> Scott Bryan
Thank you, Scott, excellent information ~
Bruce Jensen
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>
> In a message dated 1/26/2009 7:47:12 P.M. US Mountain
> Standard Time,
> bpnjensen at yahoo.com writes:
>
> He gave the coordinates as:
>
> Coordinates: 44^ 33'31.18"N and
> 110^52'23.17"W
>
> This spot is readily visible as a creamy colored spot on
> Google Earth, very
> near where the road first comes close to the river west of
> the campground.
>
> Does anybody else know of possible play from this, or any
> other hot spring,
> along the Madison River?
>
>
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