<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 14 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I do not seem to have digital images of Anemone, and have not had time to dig through thousands of slides.  The third vent is currently sintered closed.  It is in a line through the south and north vents, and is the deepest of the indentations in the rings of geyserite around “Big Anemone”, about two or three feet to the northwest of Big Anemone.  The last time I looked (during the summer of 2011 while cleaning the thermal features on Geyser Hill) the old third vent was covered by smooth white sinter and it had trapped some sandy particles.  Some 15 or 20 years ago there was a patch of dark microbial mat that occasionally bubbled during eruptions, but I have not seen that for many years.<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'>If you stand on the boardwalk at the point nearest the vent of Big Anemone the location of the third vent is at about the four o’clock position.<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'>Marler, in the <i>Inventory of Thermal Features Of the Firehole River Geyser Basins And Other Selected Areas of Yellowstone National Park</i> notes that<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:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Anemone consists of three small and closely spaced vents.  All are in a direct line and lie in a north south direction.<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'>He describes the historical activity as follows:<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:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>During the early period I observed Anemone the eruptions occurred about every 20 minutes.  There was a chain-like procedure.  Eruptions were initiated by the water rising simultaneously in the central and northern vents.  Almost immediately water would drop in the north vent, with the central one erupting to a height of about 3 feet.  During this activity which lasted scarcely more than 20 seconds, the north vent would drink the water being erupted from the central vent.  Following cessation of the middle vent's activity the south vent would erupt to a height of from 2 to 3 feet for less than a minute.  This type of function apparently had characterized it since at least the 1920s.<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'>As far as I know, intervals have been in the 9-12 minute range for Big Anemone since the 1980s at least, with numerous complicated patterns of interactions between the two currently active vents.  I described several of these in my paper in the <i>GOSA Transactions</i> Volume I.<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'>Ralph Taylor<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>Micah Kipple<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 07, 2013 11:56 PM<br><b>To:</b> geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> [Geysers] Anemone Questions<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div id=yiv221835965><div><div><div id="yiv221835965yui_3_7_2_18_1360291507575_54"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Hi All<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv221835965yui_3_7_2_18_1360291507575_54"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv221835965yui_3_7_2_18_1360291507575_54"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>So Will Boekel has just called to my attention something rather interesting to me. We both have reason to believe that Anemone Geyser (or at least Big Anemone) may have gone through a dormancy of an unspecified amount of time september-october of 1977. The post that is the most relevant to this is a post on 8/3/77 in the log book that says "Anemone had it's first eruption since fall in the last day or two." On 8/4 there was another logbook entry for it says "Welcome back!" I find this intriguing. Since Anemone hasn't had much fame throughout the parks history something pretty drastic, such as a dormancy that could have lasted from a couple days, to a couple weeks. My question is: what do you think they mean by "fall?" If any of you have any answers or speculation to this, please let me know, I would love to try to figure this out. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv221835965yui_3_7_2_18_1360291507575_54"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv221835965yui_3_7_2_18_1360291507575_54"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Also, while I'm on the topic of Anemone. Does anyone know of, or have any pictures of the West Vent of Anemone? I know it's long dead. But I'm curious as to it's location and what it's eruptive behavior was. If you have any knowledge of this, I would love to know! Thanks guys! <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv221835965yui_3_7_2_18_1360291507575_58"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv221835965yui_3_7_2_18_1360291507575_92"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Micah Kipple<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv221835965yui_3_7_2_18_1360291507575_92"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv221835965yui_3_7_2_18_1360291507575_65"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Volcanoes are God's Fireworks<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>