[Geysers] Fan and Mortar history

[Kevin S Leany]

We enjoy it.

Kevin Leany
kleany at cox.net


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> Hi Tara, Michael, and all you gazers,
>
>   I have read a few of your logs and blogs about F&M and a question that
> comes to me is:  Over the history of the past 650,000 years and the 
> volcanic
> activity of Yellowstone Park area, and the eons of time ahead of us, of 
> what
> importance is the 10, 15, 25 years of sparatic activity and history of one
> geyser got to do with our knowledge or understanding of the region?  Other
> than collecting and applying statistics to the historical data, will you,
> with what probability, be able to predict the activity over the next 1, 5, 
> 10
> years or more?  What is the destination or goal of your study?
>
>    I love Yellowstone Park, the geyser activity, the wildlife, the beauty
> of the entire region.  I have visited the Park over 200 times in my fifty
> plus years of "going to Yellowstone", follow the earthquake activity, 
> winter
> snow fall, webcams, etc., but can't for the life of me figure out why the
> efforts that are put into tracking one F&M geyser?
>
>   I would like to obtain more information as to the knowledge that is hope
> to gain from all of this data?
>
>   Gary Henderson - Meridian, Idaho</HTML>
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