[Geysers] Theory of Link minors

[Ben Hoppe]

Okay, so I have been spending plenty of time at Fan and Mortar this
year, and I have seen (heard is more accurate) a fair number of Link
minors. I have been trying to gather some information very
unofficially on Link minor eruptions. I gave Link some more attention
today (7/17) while I was waiting for something to happen at F&M, and
what happened fell right in line with my thinking.

It seems that Link has minors in series. The series always contain at
least 2 eruptions, but I'm not sure if they ever have more than 2
eruptions. I base an eruption on the amount of overflow going into the
Firehole River.

The 2 minor eruptions happen, I believe, about 20-30 minutes apart.
The peak overflow of the first eruption, based mostly on how much
water is flowing over the waterfall into the River, seems to weaken
slightly after about 20-30 minutes, until it reaches the same rate
again. After that, the rate weakens and weakens until hardly a trickle
of water is flowing into the Firehole. The runoff channel seems very
quiet for at least an hour, maybe closer to two hours, until the same
thing repeats.

I would like to know if anyone has observed anything similar to this.
It's very difficult to monitor Link minors because a) there is no
longer a bench there, and b) because the pool is constantly boiling,
there is not an easy way to differentiate between erupting and not
erupting.

Please feel free to completely disassemble this theory.

-Ben Hoppe

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