<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:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" 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 12 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple id="role_body"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Attached is a photo of Bijou and Giant taken in July 20, 1985. I have circled several areas where plants (grasses) are growing on the platform. This was 9 months after the previous Giant activity and 13 months before the next Giant eruption. I assume this would count as a dormancy?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mike Newcomb<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> geysers-bounces@lists.wallawalla.edu [mailto:geysers-bounces@lists.wallawalla.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>TSBryan@aol.com<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 03, 2011 6:11 PM<br><b>To:</b> geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Geysers] Wildflowers During Giant's Dormancy?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I am very uncertain as to the use of the term "dormancy" for these groups. In the case of the Giant Group, there has essentially always been activity among those geysers, mostly by Bijou but spritzing by Catfish, boiling in Mastiff and even surging (yes, down inside the vent but still present) in Giant. Attached is a photo of Bijou taken in October (yes, October) 1978. I think you can see the colored bacteria on the cone as well as on the platform, the result of constant wetting by the Bijou and other activity. Although I have no photo proof of it, I can certainly remember plants (if not flowers) on the platform. But I also know that annual wildflowers can sprout in a minimum of soil and do so... well... annually. This in the middle of the "dormancy."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Much the same can be said of the Daisy Group. Comet never quit, there was action by Bonita and Radiator, as well as by numerous sputs on the "platform" near Splendid. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I guess maybe this business of group dormancy can be said of the other places cited but, overall, I think Jeff's proposed paper might be doomed from the start.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br>Scott Bryan<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>-------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>In a message dated 8/2/2011 7:32:35 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, jeff.cross@utah.edu writes:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I recall overhearing once that during the period of Giant Geyser's dormancy from 1959 through the gradual reactivation in the mid-1980s, wildflowers and grasses grew on the Giant platform.  Is this indeed true?<br><br>How many other groups of geysers have gone dormant all at once, as the Giant Group did during this period?  I can think of three:<br><br>Orion Group, Shoshone Geyser Basin, late 1970s and ongoing<br>Lower Group, Heart Lake Geyser Basin, between 2008 and 2010 and ongoing<br>Daisy Group, Upper Geyser Basin, during the 1960s and recovered in the 1970s<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>