[Geysers] History of Morning Geyser

[Lynn Stephens]

I forgot to note that the list in geysertimes.org does not include the eruptions between August 19, 1978 and conclusion of that activity, which lasted "only about one month" per Hutchinson's 1978-1979 "Geologic and Thermal Highlights of Yellowstone, 1978-79" report.  In Rick's inimitable style, he included a bit of humor in his report where he said, "Morning Geyser - This spectacular fountain geyser rejuvenated for the second time since the 1959 Hebgen Lake Earthquake on or about August 19, 1978.  President Jimmy Carter and his family missed it by less than 90 minutes on august 26th because of fishing and politics.  The active phase for morning Geyser lasted only about one month." I did enter an artificial time for an August 19, 1978 eruption so I could get one eruption on the list that shows when a request for analysis of Giantess data is entered into geysertimes.org.   Next time I go to the archives, I'll look for the August 1978-September 1978 OFVC logbooks to see if I can locate dates for eruptions during that "one month" period.   If anyone has a copy of Rick's 1978 annual report, would you please let me know whether he included the list of eruptions in that report. Thank you. Lynn Stephens
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Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 19:12:55 -0600
Subject: [Geysers] History of Morning Geyser




In response to requests for various types of information about Morning Geyser's activity, I typed in the list of eruptions from 1981 and 1982 that Heinrich Koenig had extracted from the OFVC logbooks, Hutchinson reports, etc., into geysertimes.org.  (The list of 1973 eruptions is in the electronic version of the OFVC logbooks, hosted on the GOSA website, and had already been uploaded by Will Boekel into geysertimes.org when he uploaded the 1973 logbook.)  I added three eruptions to the Koenig 1981 list that I found in the logbooks that HK had not included on his list.  I also entered activity for 1991 and 1994 into geysertimes.org.  Thus, the list of known and inferred eruptions of Morning Geyser is complete from 1966 through yesterday.
 
I have also entered the list of Giantess eruptions not already entered into geysertimes.org by Will's upload of the electronic version of the OFVC logbooks.  The Giantess list should show all eruptions back through 1970.
 
Finally, I also entered in Giant eruptions so the list of Giant eruptions on geysertimes.org is complete from the 1963 eruption through the most recent eruption.
 
In some cases I had to artificially input  time in cases of logbook entries such as "early am" or "between 0200 - 0400."  This was necessary to get the eruptions to show up on the list of eruptions.  I put the exact logbook entry in the comment box.  In cases where the logbook entry included a "?", I checked the "?" box.
 
Lynn Stephens
 
 
 		 	   		  

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