[Geysers] Pebble Geyser

[Karen Webb]

So even with its oscillations, Pebble itself is not known to erupt? I've 
been wondering since we noticed mucho overflow followed by a very low 
pool on several attempts to catch Gemini.
Karen


On 6/5/2013 11:25 PM, Stephen Eide wrote:
> Greetings and Salutations,
> The steam/gas coming out of this crack/fracture was first noticed by 
> Will Boekel on 5-30-13 when he heard it before me.  Young ears and 
> all.  I also noticed Pebble filling and then dropping on June 1st and 
> 2nd, I was hoping for Gemini without luck.  When Pebble covers the 
> crack/fracture it looks like it is erupting but when the water level 
> drops below the feature you can tell it has no water output, just 
> steam and/or gas.  But this is the first time I have seen any activity 
> in this area also.
> Also, on 6-1-13 I did see an eruption of Spire Geyser in the Tangled 
> Creek area.
> Stephen Eide
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 10:51 PM, David Monteith <dmonteit at comcast.net 
> <mailto:dmonteit at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>     Here are couple images captured Saturday of the feature I think
>     Lynn is
>     talking about.  On the two times I was looking for it, I saw it active
>     once and inactive once.  I think it was Steve E who said it had also
>     been heard making a forced steam sound when Pebble's water level was
>     low.
>
>     Dave
>
>
>     On Tue, 2013-06-04 at 20:17 -0600, Lynn Stephens wrote:
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>     > Yesterday (6/3/2013) I noticed a feature I had never seen before on
>     > the west edge of Pebble Geyser, near the top of the area that gets
>     > inundated when Pebble fills to overflow.  When I first saw it,
>     Pebble
>     > was rising and was several inches above the algae line on the inside
>     > of the "crater".  Water was burbling out from underneath a piece of
>     > what looks like an old sinter rim.  The burbling continued even
>     after
>     > Pebble had filled to the point where Pebble's water had covered the
>     > sinter ledge be several inches and Pebble was in full overflow.
>      I did
>     > not monitor the feature closely as Pebble drained, but the three
>     time
>     > I have checked Pebble when Pebble's water was 2 to 3 inches
>     below the
>     > top of the orange algae mark on the inide of Pebble's crater, the
>     > feature was not burbling.  Height=2 to 3 inches when the feature is
>     > not underwater.  The bubbles rising from the west side of the crater
>     > when the feature is innundated are definitely water, not gas or air.
>     > The feature is intermittent but I have not observed it enough to
>     > determine either durations or intervals.
>     >
>     > Lynn Stephens
>     >
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