[Geysers] History of Morning Geyser

[Lynn Stephens]

I have already apologized twice for my post with misinformation, but will apologize one more time.  This will be my last post.
 
Lynn Stephens
 



Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:25:59 -0600
From: caros at xmission.com
To: geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu
Subject: Re: [Geysers] History of Morning Geyser

Cathy did tell me this face to face, so I wasn't getting it second hand. I thought you might have meant she told me she *planned* to do it, and didn't, but a few years later we ran into her in the deli in West and she said she had collected the samples but had stashed them but not done anything with them.
Karen Webb

On 6/22/2012 10:29 PM, Lynn Stephens wrote: 



Thank you Debbie and Mary Ann for the correction.  I apologize for the misinformation.  I was present when Cathy collected water from Rusty/Dusty, but was not aware she had also done Daisy/Splendid.
 
Lynn Stephens
 

> From: dspurloc at ius.edu
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> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:55:14 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Geysers] History of Morning Geyser
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> I 'm sending a message from Mary Ann Moss.
> 
> According to Mary Ann Moss who was present in the park at that time, Cathy Nist did put the chemicals in Splendid and Daisy, the last year (late fall) that Cathy Nist worked in the park. Rick H. came down with his truck to help her get the bottles of water samples out of the basin. She took them with her when she left the park. She got a job working on a fishing boat and stored the water samples in her father's garage. As far as I know nothing was done with them.
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> Mary Ann Moss
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> Rick asked thatCatny Nist to do Dusty/Rusty first. However, she never finished the Dusty/Rusty work so was not given permission to do Splendid/Daisy.
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> Lynn Stephens
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> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:58:28 -0600
> From: caros at xmission.com
> To: geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu
> Subject: Re: [Geysers] History of Morning Geyser
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> Lynn's reply has so much better detail than this, but at least one edition of the The Bible (Scott's Bryan's The Geysers of Yellowstone) says that everything in the Fountain group is connected to everything else, so a very regular Fountain tends to affect the abilities of the other fun things up there like Morning, Silex, Jelly, etc, to erupt. (And I've heard Herb express a theory that anything different on Geyser Hill can be a precursor for Giantess: go Goggles(es) go!) Geysers and their associated aquifers can be very complex entities, and the subsurface connections (say, the one that connects Beauty and Chromatic) can be quite clear or really esoteric (there is no evidence to my knowledge that Atomizer and Artemesia are connected, though they're not much farther apart than B&C). I don't know if she ever got this assay complete, but a geothermal researcher named Cathy Nist had a research proposal accepted that allowed her to put a chemical salt of some sort into Splendid an
> d periodically take samples from the other geysers in the Daisy group to track the way it diffused. It's a great question; looking for answers would make for a whole bunch of really good (funded) research studies.
> Karen Webb
> 
> On 6/20/2012 6:08 PM, Bill Johnson wrote:
> Exciting news! (Although I do wish it had happened a week earlier, when I was in the park. :-) )
> 
> My wife asks a good question: is there any possible connection between this activity and the recent irregularity of Fountain Geyser? One thing I didn't report from last week's visit was that Fountain intervals were apparently rather erratic -- again, those with more complete times than I can tell that story better, but it wasn't its old reliable 6- or 12-hour self. Is there enough on Morning's past history to know whether comparable breaks in Fountain's routine preceded its previous eruptions? That's probably all the "connection" that one can hope for, but it would be interesting if the answer was yes.
> 
> -- Bill Johnson
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Lynn Stephens <lstephens2006 at hotmail.com<mailto:lstephens2006 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
> People have asked about Morning Geyser's eruptive history:
> 
> Per Whittlesey's Nomenclature:
> 
> 
> "Turn of the century guidebooks stated that Fountain Geyser ceased operation in July, 1899, and remained inactive until October (when Morning Geyser quit?) at which time it resumed its usual displays. This source mentioned the large 1899 eruptions of present Morning Geyser saying that at times they lasted for fully one hour. Later editions described activity of Morning in July, 1909, when "Fountain abandoned its crater for the one adjoining and threw out jagged masses of geyserite more than 200 feet. The water was muddy and full of rock fragments." These 1909 eruptions continued at least into September. There is apparently no record of activity for 1900-1908.
> 
> Eruptive activity of present Morning Geyser occurred twice in the 1920s. One spectacular eruption is known for August of 1921, when Ranger Troutman saw it play to 250 feet in height and holding its height no lower than 200 feet for one hour and ten minutes. Another eruption is known for July of 1922.
> After this, no further activity appears to have occurred until 1944, when the geyser erupted once. Two eruptions are known for 1946, and then in 1947, eleven eruptions were recorded. Of those eruptions, all but two occurred during the morning hours, hence geologist George Marler's name (suggested in 1947-48) of Morning Geyser.
> 
> These eruptions were followed by 36 more in 1948, and eleven in 1949. Morning Geyser was dormant 1950-51, and again rejuvenated in 1952. It was active 1952-59, 1974, 1978, and 1981-83."
> 
> Additional activity occurred in May 1991 for a few days, August 1991 for 3 weeks, and for about a week at the end of March/beginning of April 1994.
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