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.
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Name. |
Height of eruption. |
Duration of eruption. |
Interval between eruptions. |
Remarks. |
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Black Growler | --- | --- | --- | Steam vent only. |
Constant | 15-35 | 5 to 15 seconds | 20 to 55 seconds |
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Congress Pool | --- | --- | --- | Large boiling spring. |
Echinus | 30 | 3 minutes | 45 to 50 minutes |
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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 |
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New Crater | 6-25 | 1 to 4 minutes | 2 to 5 minutes |
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Valentine | 60 | 15 to 60 minutes | Irregular |
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Whirligig | 1-15 | 30 seconds | do | Near Constant Geyser |
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LOWER BASIN.
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Black Warrior | --- | Continuous | --- | Small but interesting geysers. |
White Dome | 10 | 1 minute | 40 to 60 minutes |
Clepsytra | 10-40 | Few seconds | 3 minutes |
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Fountain Geyser | 75 | 10 minutes | Irregular |
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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. |
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UPPER BASIN.
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Artemisia | 50 | 10 to 15 minutes | 24 to 30 hours | Varies. |
Atomizer | 2 | --- | --- |
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Beehive | 200 | 6 to 8 minutes | 3 to 5 times at 12-hour intervals following Giantess. |
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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 |
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Economic | 20 | Few seconds | --- | Seldom in eruption. |
Fan | 15-25 | 10 minutes | Irregular |
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Giant | 200-250 | 60 minutes | 6 to 14 days |
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Giantess | 150-200 | 12 to 36 hours | Irregular, 5 to 10 days |
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Grand | 200 | 15 to 30 minutes | Irregular 1 or 2 days |
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Grotto | 20-30 | Varies | 2 to 5 hours |
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Jewel | 5-20 | About 1 minute | 5 minutes |
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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 |
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Oblong | 20-40 | 7 minutes | 8 to 15 hours |
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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 |
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Notable springs.Black Sand Springs (about 55 by 60 feet),
Chinaman, Emerald Pool, Morning Glory, Punch Bowl, Sponge, Sunset Lake.
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Last Updated: 16-Feb-2010
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