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YELLOWSTONE
Rules and Regulations 1920 |
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PROMINENT GEYSERS AND SPRINGS.
The most important geysers and springs are listed below.
[Based upon observations, season 1917.]
| NORRIS BASIN. | ||||
| Name. | Height of eruption. |
Duration of eruption. | Interval between eruptions. |
Remarks. |
| Feet. | ||||
| Black Growler | --- | --- | --- | Steam vent only. |
| Constant | 15-35 | 5 to 15 seconds | 20 to 55 seconds | |
| Congress Pool | --- | --- | --- | Large boiling spring. |
| Echinus | 30 | 3 minutes | 45 to 50 minutes | |
| Emerald Pool | --- | --- | --- | Beautiful hot spring. |
| Hurricane | 6-8 | --- | --- | Continuous. |
| Minute Man | 8-15 | 15 to 30 seconds | 1 to 3 minutes | Sometimes quiet for long periods. |
| Monarch | 100-125 | 6 minutes | Irregular | |
| New Crater | 6-25 | 1 to 4 minutes | 2 to 5 minutes | |
| Valentine | 60 | 15 to 60 minutes | Irregular | |
| Whirligig | 1-15 | 30 seconds | do | Near Constant Geyser |
| LOWER BASIN. | ||||
| Black Warrior | --- | Continuous | --- | Small but interesting geysers. |
| White Dome | 10 | 1 minute | 40 to 60 minutes | |
| Clepsytra | 10-40 | Few seconds | 3 minutes | |
| Fountain Geyser | 75 | 10 minutes | Irregular | |
| Firehole Lake | --- | --- | Peculiar phenomena. | |
| Great Fountain | 75-150 | 45 to 60 minutes | 8 to 12 hours | Spouts 4 or 5 times. |
| Mammoth Paint Pot | --- | --- | --- | Basin of boiling clay. |
| Excelsior | 200-300 | About 1/2 hour | --- | Ceased playing in 1888. |
| Prismatic Lake | --- | --- | --- | Size about 250 by 400 feet; remarkable coloring. |
| Turquoise Spring | --- | --- | --- | About 100 feet in diameter. |
| UPPER BASIN. | ||||
| Artemisia | 50 | 10 to 15 minutes | 24 to 30 hours | Varies. |
| Atomizer | 2 | --- | --- | |
| Beehive | 200 | 6 to 8 minutes | 3 to 5 times at 12-hour intervals following Giantess. | |
| Cascade | --- | --- | --- | Quiet again. |
| Castle | 50-75 | 30 minutes | 1 to 7 days | Quiet 4 to 7 days, then plays 3 or 4 times at intervals stated. |
| Cub, large | 60 | 8 minutes | With Lioness | Short chimneys to Lion and Lioness. |
| Cub, small | 10-30 | 17 minutes | 1 to 2 hours | |
| Daisy | 70 | 3 minutes | 70-80 minutes | |
| Economic | 20 | Few seconds | --- | Seldom in eruption. |
| Fan | 15-25 | 10 minutes | Irregular | |
| Giant | 200-250 | 60 minutes | 6 to 14 days | |
| Giantess | 150-200 | 12 to 36 hours | Irregular, 5 to 10 days | |
| Grand | 200 | 15 to 30 minutes | Irregular 1 or 2 days | |
| Grotto | 20-30 | Varies | 2 to 5 hours | |
| Jewel | 5-20 | About 1 minute | 5 minutes | |
| Lion | 50-60 | About 2 to 4 minutes | Irregular | Usually 2 to 17 times a day. |
| Lioness | 80-100 | About 10 minutes | do | Played once in 1910, once in 1912, and once early in 1914. |
| Mortar | 30 | 4 to 6 minute | do | |
| Oblong | 20-40 | 7 minutes | 8 to 15 hours | |
| Old Faithful | 120-170 | 4 minutes | 65 to 80 minutes | Usual interval 75 minutes. |
| Riverside | 85-100 | 15 minutes | 6 to 7 hours | Very regular. |
| Sawmill | 20-35 | 1 to 3 hours | Irregular | Usually 5 to 8 times a day. |
| Spasmodic | 4 | 20 to 60 minutes | do | Usually 1 to 4 times a day. |
| Splendid | 200 | 10 minutes | --- | Not played since 1892. |
| Sponge | --- | 1 minute | 3 minutes | A small but perfect geyser. |
| Turban | 20-40 | 10 minutes to 3 hours | Irregular | |
Notable springs.—Black Sand Springs (about 55 by 60 feet), Chinaman, Emerald Pool, Morning Glory, Punch Bowl, Sponge, Sunset Lake.
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