[Geysers] And help with Kaleidoscope?

[robert haker]

 Karen,     Its been 15 years or more since  Rick Hutchinson. ( the park  geologist at the time) and I  were out there.  I believe you saw a vent in Deep Blue.  I filmed it,alas--- the film is lost.   The entire pool was about 1- 2 meters below the rim of D.B.  When Rick saw a certain series of bubbles he said to move back.  We moved back ~30 feet.  The entire pool elevated in just a couple seconds and a vent that would be on the W-SW side blew out spectacularly.--   I'm getting too old to remember more details,but it was a heckuva series of eruptions. Probably 60-80 ft.(or higher)
     Hope to be in the Park late Aug-Labor Day. 
     BYE 4 NOW,     Rob Haker

--- On Tue, 7/12/11, caros at xmission.com <caros at xmission.com> wrote:


From: caros at xmission.com <caros at xmission.com>
Subject: [Geysers] And help with Kaleidoscope?
To: "Geyser Observation Reports" <geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu>
Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 7:37 PM


Need some help determining what feature or features we saw while hanging out waiting for Fountain last week (did get a stunningly beautiful Honeycomb whilst waiting also...)

OK, here's the set-up. Please understand I had binoculars with me and have never had mega-eyeballs before when viewing this area. From right to left, Deep Blue, the thing I'm not sure of that was BIG (larger than Deep Blue all the time I watched it) but was in the basic Kaleidoscope/Drain area), a small (guessing a meter across) pool, and a last pool I'm fairly sure was Three Vent. All lined up in a row; the thing I think was 3-Vent was well to the right of Blow-out and where NTFL erupted from.

With the binoculars, the feature in question clearly had suspended particles in it (think the milky blue of Porcelain Basin, not the clear intense blue of Gentian or Deep Blue). The edge on this pool's right had the gentle slope you expect with active geysers; however, the rear edge and left side of the pool formed abrupt right angles with the landscape around them. The feature sat perhaps 6" below the pool's rim, although it did appear to flow over the lip toward Deep Blue from time to time. Not sure how important this is, but what was visible of the crater at the back and back left seemed a goldy-orange and irregular (like no build-up of sinter in pretty patterns.

The 4 eruptions we saw were enormous, but they were literally "blink" geysers whose eruptions were restricted to a single burst with a second or so prodromal play before the big water came bursting through. Guess on the height of the first 3 is 80 feet; the 4th was smaller (looked a little like Drain toward the end of a series). Bursts were 6-10 minutes apart. First burst was fan-shaped, wide the way Drain is wide. Second was a tall, narrow spindle and very Kaleidoscope-shaped but came and went much faster than one expects Kaleidoscope to (likewise with the first one); third was kind of a spherical burst with a "spindle" coming up through it; the fourth was as described above. The pool did not drain, but we saw no further activity though we waited through most of Honeycomb and all of Fountain/Morning's Thief.

Wondering if the milky pool and the angular edge suggest a blowout of some sort and if maybe Drain's and Kaeidoscope's pool now function as one pool? Several days later on a Fountain sit, noticed that the pool was truly full, but we witnessed no further eruptions.

Any takers on this one? Deep Blue had several smallish vents playing including the geyser previously known as the Firehose; nothing except intermittent steam out of the two pools to the left of this montage.

One more question re Sprinkler group: currently, there are two geysers in what I think are the Vertical/Angle area that are playing in concert fairly consistently and do look to be coming out of the same shallow crater. They are the only two I've noticed that exhibit this twinned behavior. Any takers on that one as well?

Thanks for any help. This one has me stumped.
Karen Webb




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