<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV> <A href="mailto:rlpowell@indiana.edu">rlpowell@indiana.edu</A> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Scott Bryan (1955) Geysers of Yellowstone, p. 74 mentions 11 bursts in<BR>>an exceptional eruption in 1983.  Is this the eruption Goldberg recorded?</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Well, again showing that I am getting OLD... who would have thought that any edition of my book was published in 1955! And how remarkable that a 1955 book can contain information about a 1983 eruption.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Let's see. Where was I. Gee, where am i? golly. Oh, yeah... (kidding. I think.)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>... anyhow, obviously the 1983 11-burst Grand was not that filmed by Goldberg. I don't recall who saw the '83 eruption -- not me -- but back then Grand had a lot more bursts than it does now. For the record, here is what I compiled for June + July + August that year</DIV> <DIV>Number of Bursts/Number of eruptions</DIV> <DIV>1/4</DIV> <DIV>2/34</DIV> <DIV>3/51</DIV> <DIV>4/26</DIV> <DIV>5/3</DIV> <DIV>6/7</DIV> <DIV>7/1</DIV> <DIV>8/0</DIV> <DIV>9/0</DIV> <DIV>10/0</DIV> <DIV>11/1</DIV> <DIV>Season average = 3.18 bursts</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Old guy</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>