[Geysers] Geysers Digest, Vol 2620, Issue 1

[Randal H]

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> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:43:39 -0400 (EDT)
> From: TSBryan at aol.com
> To: geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu
> Subject: [Geysers] Strange feature
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> For some reason -- probably has to do with being "stuck" in southern  
> Arizona for another three months -- I was using Google Earth to look at  places 
> in Yellowstone. For some reason (no idea why, really) I zoomed in on the  
> Spruce Creek-Juniper Creek area, a few miles up Nez Perce Creek well beyond the 
>  Morning Mist area.
>  
> First, here is what Allen & Day (pp. 283-284) had to say about that  area:
>  
>      The southern branch of Nez Perce Creek is formed  by the junction of 
> Spruce and Juniper Creeks, cold mountain streams which  receive no warm water 
> till they near the meadow where they unite. Three-quarters  of a mile up 
> Spruce Creek, the explorer comes upon an old sheet of siliceous  sinter, along 
> the western border of which a mild type of acid activity of  limited extent 
> still persists.
>      On the banks of Juniper Creek there is nothing of  a thermal character 
> except a few quiet pools embedded in ancient sinter, and  along a little 
> tributary of the creek from the south, a small number of acid  springs, 
> characterized by meager sulphur deposits, yield not more than 0.1 sec.  ft. of 
> warm water. --end--
>  
> OK, so two Google Earth photos are attached. The first serves as a map to  
> the area, with the trailhead, Morning Mist/Culex, and a really odd looking  
> feature marked. The second photo is a close up of that strange feature, 
> which my  wife calls "The Alien."
>  
> What is it? Any explorers out there game of a 15 mile (round trip) hike?  
> (Won't be me!)
>  
> Scott Bryan

I would certainly be game, Scott, since I have an unexpected abundance of free time on my hands this summer, but the attachments were scrubbed it says, so I know not of what you speak. Are they posted on the 'net somewhere? Or can I get you to send them direct to me? 

--Randal H.
 		 	   		  
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