[Geysers] Back country basins

[Jeff Cross]

The remote backcountry thermal areas are visited rarely.  Lone Star, Shoshone and Heart Lake get more visitation.  I have been to Joseph's Coat and Bog Creek and can testify that while a few small geysers have existed in these locations, they are mainly notable for acidic gas barrens, mud pots, fumaroles, acid ponds, and bright colors (at Joseph's Coat) due to hydrothermal alteration of the rocks.  I know a few people who have made it into Bechler (I have not).  I have heard nothing about Boundary Creek for many years.  The only good documentation is the enormous two-volume Lesser Known Thermal Units, authored in the mid 1980s by Rocco Paperiello and Marie Wolf, plus a few Transactions articles published since then.

Jeff Cross
jeff.cross at wallawalla.edu


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Subject: [Geysers] Back country basins

Hello, just joined the List..

Has research/survey work with lesser-known back country basins [Joseph's Coat, Bog Greek, Boundry Creek...etc etc] picked up over the last few years? Ist there documentation available?



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