[Geysers] A Photographer Is Seeking Info about Black RockGeyser in Gerlac...

Pat Snyder riozafiro at gmail.com
Sat Jul 14 10:49:24 PDT 2012


Thank you, Scott! I will pass this along to the photographer as well.
He can figure it out from there.
Much appreciated.
Pat Snyder

On Jul 14, 2012, at 8:00 AM, <TSBryan at aol.com> <TSBryan at aol.com> wrote:

> I believe that both previous respondents might be wrong, as this name implies that this is NOT the Fly Ranch thing.
>  
> More likely it is a spring (probably the southernmost) in the 5+ mile long Double Hot Springs-Black Rock Hot Springs trend along the west face of the Black Rock Range. As the proverbial bird flies, this is about 45 miles northeast of Gerlach and roughly 25 miles east-northeast of the Fly Ranch area.
>  
> Per Garside and Schilling (1979) (yes, it is getting dated), there are traces of travertine and siliceous sinter among these springs, of which the southernmost had a temperature of 202F, right at boiling for the altitude. That, perhaps, is the Black Rock Geyser.
>  
> Now, should the photographers photo show good ol' Fly Ranch, well then.........
>  
> Scott Bryan
>  
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> In a message dated 7/13/2012 6:36:58 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, upperbasin at comcast.net writes:
> I don't think it has an official name.  When we visited we looked at
> references that called it the Fly Ranch Geyser. And it is a drilled well and
> is perpetual, so the term "geyser" is not very accurate. 
> 
> It is a few miles north of Gerlach on the east side of the road, maybe 100
> yards off the road.  
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