[Geysers] Strange feature

[Karen Webb]

OMG it does look like an alien. Maybe this is the thermal area 
equivalent of a crop circle :-D
Karen Webb


On 6/12/2013 9:43 AM, TSBryan at aol.com wrote:
> 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
>
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