[Geysers] small geyser below Marmot Cave

[r maurer]

I have video of the small geyser, its a short one but it does have it splashing.  Does anyone want a link??

Ryan
 


From: mnewcomb at xmission.com
To: geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 20:33:55 -0600
Subject: RE: [Geysers] small geyser below Marmot Cave





Attached is a photo of the feature Debbie is describing. I couldn’t capture the water but it was spitting it out about 9 inches. I’ve seen better mugs at the fun house.
 
MIke
 


From: geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu [mailto:geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu] On Behalf Of Debbie Sjodin
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 2:20 PM
To: 'Geyser Observation Reports'
Subject: [Geysers] small geyser below Marmot Cave
 

I was intrigued with the small feature below Marmot Cave and since I was having a problem with my bad knee I decided to observe this feature for a while.
These are my conclusions after 7 or 8 non-continuous hours of observation.
These observations were valid for August 3-6, 2009
It is a geyser
It is not erupting for more time than it erupts.
 
Assumption: An eruption is when water is fairly consistently being splashed beyond the inner rim of the crater. Breaks in the splashing not lasting longer than 15 seconds do not make a separate eruption
 
It has 2 types of eruptions
 
One type of eruption is usually 5 minutes or less, often 2 minutes or less and does not send water down the runoff channel.
The other type of eruption usually lasts 8 to 15 minutes and does produce a stream of water down the runoff channel.
These types of eruptions sometimes alternate but there can be strings of the shorter eruptions without one of the longer ones.
 
Because it nearly continuously chatters I call it the Mouth geyser.
 
Debbie Sjodin
 
debbie.sjodin at clearwire.net
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