[Geysers] Unnamed geyser on Geyser Hill near Sponge (Schwarz)

[Mary Beth Schwarz]

     Today I saw David Goldberg who checked the geyser near Sponge
yesterday 19 August and confirmed that it is eruptions of Slot Geyser that
we are seeing.

     Mary Beth Schwarz

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Mary Beth Schwarz <schwarzmb at gmail.com>wrote:

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>      Thanks Dave.  Today 19 August Dick Powell saw eruptions of what he
> called on the radio as "webcam geyser" at 0947, 1024, 12__, 1238, 1328, and
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>      Mary Beth Schwarz
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> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:43 AM, David Monteith <dmonteit at comcast.net>wrote:
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>> Saturday I noted the UNNG near Sponge for the first time in a while but
>> then again, I haven't had the time to review the webcam stream very
>> closely for the past week or so.  Based on Mary Beth and Dicks' report,
>> I just reviewed the stream again.  The camera wasn't pointed at the area
>> at 0953 but it did catch the eruption at 1221.  It is the same feature
>> reported earlier.
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>> For much of the day the section of the hill in question was not visible
>> but even so, I did observe 10 eruptions.  The durations for all of them
>> were about the same as reported by Mary Beth and Dick though many
>> appeared to be a few feet taller than the 1221 eruption.
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>> The eruptions I found on the stream from on August 18, 2012 were at:
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>> 1221
>> 1403
>> 1414
>> 1424
>> 1509
>> 1659
>> 1815
>> 1828
>> 1853
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>> Note: The stream is currently corrupted by a bad header (key frame).
>> I've corrected the header in order to get proper times.  Eruptions times
>> obtained from the corrected stream have been confirmed with reports from
>> the park.  Bad headers occur about once a month.  I believe they occur
>> when the stream has been running too long causing an error when one of
>> the parameters in the header gets too big (possibly a frame counter).
>> To fix the problem the NPS administrator has to access the stream server
>> which will hopefully happen soon.
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>> Dave
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>> On Sat, 2012-08-18 at 21:23 -0500, Mary Beth Schwarz wrote:
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>> >      Today 18 August 2012 Dick Powell saw two eruptions of the unnamed
>> > geyser on Geyser Hill near Sponge at 0953 and 1221.  Each eruption was
>> > two bursts, and he has pictures of the one at 1221 taken from the
>> > boardwalk  near Sponge.  Height estimate is 4'-5' with 2 bursts of
>> > short 5-10 seconds? duration.  The feature is about 2/5 of the
>> > distance between Plate and Boardwalk (closer to Plate) , and Dick
>> > located a hole on the UGB Geologic map that may be the location of the
>> > feature.  I saw the second eruption from the porch of the Lower Store
>> > today.  Dick and I also saw it erupt in July but did not know the
>> > exact location.
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>> >      This does seem to be what Scott Bryan described that he observed
>> > in 2010.
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>> >      Did the webcam folks see these or other eruptions of it today?
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>> >      Mary Beth Schwarz
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