<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style>  </head> <body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>One thing about these short post-marathons.  I’ve seen two types.  In one there is no Grotto Marathon, but Grotto just sort of sloshes a bit, then builds up strength and – by gosh – it sure looks like an eruption.  Then Grotto fades away and stops after 25-30 minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The other kind is what Scott (and previously moi) saw this year.  A full blown Grotto Marathon, then a real Grotto start (big whoosh, etc.) then a real Rocket.  Then a real stop.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Also, the one I saw (and I assume Scott also) this year took place at the expected time for the true post-Marathon eruption – many hours after the end of the marathon.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Paul Strasser<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </span></font></div> <p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> geysers-bounces@wwc.edu [mailto:geysers-bounces@wwc.edu] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Jan and Lew<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, August 16, 2005 7:08 PM<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">geyser observation reports</st1:PersonName><br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Geysers] RE: Short Early Grotto Postmarathon</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Shortest Grotto we recorded</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>7/22/95</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Start 2:58</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>End  12:04  (Lew visual end 12:19)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>556 minutes duration</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Start 1513</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>End  1538</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>24 minutes duration</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>We both were there in the morning taking stupid notes about the marathon pool and the eternal (I mean variable) spring.  Seems we spent the morning watching them do nothing very interesting then we went to the hill. It seems we were watching Beehive at 1551 that day.   So a Rocket would be possible since no one would have been looking that way.  I do think that we went through stuff with David and David and came up with the notion of a "false marathon stop" with great glee.....(its even in our notes) what fun it was!</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Jan and Lew</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt; margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>----- Original Message ----- <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div style='font-color:black'> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#E4E4E4'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a href="mailto:yellowstonekaren@yahoo.com" title="yellowstonekaren@yahoo.com">Karen Low</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>To:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a href="mailto:geysers@wwc.edu" title="geysers@wwc.edu">geyser observation reports</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Tuesday, August 16, 2005 12:43 AM<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> [Geysers] RE: Short Early Grotto Postmarathon<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #1010FF 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt; margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>     I haven't seen anything like the short Grottos Scott and Paul described, but it sparks a memory.  Whichever year (1997) the Johns were conducting a Grotto study they noted a few times when Grotto erupted very early after a marathon.  Sometimes only a few hours after the end of a long marathon.  These eruptions were very short (less than an hour) and seemed count as a little extra duration on the marathon in the sense that if you added their duration to the marathon and counted the marathon interval to the next 'real' Grotto it was about what the duration/interval formula would have predicted.  None of these were seen that year so it's possible that Rocket had strong, early eruptions in those too.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>David Goldberg (from Karen's email account)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </blockquote> </div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <hr size=1 width="100%" align=center> </span></font></div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=34442/*http:/www.yahoo.com/r/hs">Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page </a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </span></font></div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'>_______________________________________________<br> Geysers mailing list<br> Geysers@wwc.edu<br> https://mailman.wwc.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> </blockquote> </div> </body> </html>