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The Norris Geyser Basin is the hottest geyser basin in the park and is located near the northwest edge of Yellowstone Caldera near Norris Junction and on the intersection of three major faults. The Norris-Mammoth Corridor is a fault that runs from Norris north through Mammoth to the Gardiner, Montana, area. The Hebgen Lake fault runs from northwest of West Yellowstone, Montana, to Norris. This fault experienced an earthquake in 1959 that measured 7.4 on the Richter scale (sources vary on exact magnitude between 7.1 and 7.8; see 1959 Yellowstone earthquake). Norris Geyser Basin is so hot and dynamic because these two faults intersect with the ring fracture zone that resulted from the creation of the Yellowstone Caldera of 640,000 years ago.
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I meant to watch the London's Notting Hill Carnival on this day ( in view of taking loads of shots of course ) but the weather was crap ,well to me it was . Though the the forecast for the day was dry but it was cloudy and grey ,it gave the feel it 's gonna be pouring with rain any time soon - it was nippy too . Perhaps because I get used to the warm Philippine temperature with its long lasting effects by which the grey English summer feels to me like I'm in winterland . I don't mind if its down to 17 oC , I can exist with only a t-shirt but below that I need a jumper . Without the sunshine , honestly I am NOT too motivated to go out . It was a bank holiday , and it's sad to stay indoors and waste my time possibly in flickr lol ...so did a walk in the afternoon and ended up here at Heybridge Basin .Then the sun pops out giving a nice afternoon glow . Love it here and took a number of shots before it gets too dark . The Notting Hill Carnival will be for another time ... only if it's a promising sunny day .
Left : one of a series of basins integrated into a managed monolith (abric or paradolmen) dated from around 4,200 - 3,500 ybp, so through the first ages of metal.
Centre : a basin on a rock overlooking a dolmen that is dated around 5500-5200 ybp.
Right : a basin on a monolith that includes chemically worn rounded granit cups and canals typical of the neolithic period, including some cup and canal crosses.
These do not seem to be basins for grinding seed and appear to be located on rocks and in juxtapositions that suggest ritual uses.
Whilst basins do not have their own reliable avenues for datation, it would seem sensible that they might signal ritual activities from a time span within the range of 5,000 ybp and into the dark early centuries of history in places where centralized Medieval cultural impacts were at their least.
A neolithic basin can be reworked with metal tools in the same way that some natural basins can be re worked with stone tools.
I have posted an adjacent visualisation of some of the activities that may have been associated with basins. The association of basins with some, but far from all sites of monolithic graves may suggest that the date range for this form of sépulture needs to be expanded into late prehistory. Basins in the neolithic may suggests that the early spiritual systems documented for the protohistoric 'Celt' - for example the worshiping of the sun and water - may have modified and emerged from pre existing 'equivalents' closer to Bell Beaker cultures.
Whilst it can always be argued that the basin originated from a chronology outside of associated archaeological artefacts, there has to be a point when some blatant and integrated holistic sites are acknowledged as being contemporary to each other, with the example top right seeming to be an indubitable whole of basin and prehistoric petroglyph. Medieval terms like sacrificial stone, and druids stone ; images and ideas of potions and pantomime are all drawn to these stones like graffiti to certain bus stops. Much work was required to create just such basins and their importance must have been obvious. Wanting to offer a special frame and context for the glory of water, wanting the water to be in contact with a special rock, with rites being both 'time' and 'occasion' specific.
AJM 06.08.18
During my road trip move from TX to central WA, I made Yellowstone National Park one of my stops along the way. Of course, it was summertime, probably the worst time in the world to visit that particular park. I couldn't find one at Upper Geyser Basin (and those of you who have gone there know how big that parking lot is) so, disgruntled, I drove on toward Gardiner. On the way, I saw the turnoff to Biscuit Basin and decided to try my luck there. A car was backing out of a small parking space so I quickly squeezed my own little car in. The landscape in this show was one of the first sights that greeted my eyes as I headed toward the boardwalk. The geology of Yellowstone never fails to amaze me.
I'm heading back there this fall and can't wait!
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The Norris Geyser Basin is the hottest geyser basin in the park and is located near the northwest edge of Yellowstone Caldera near Norris Junction and on the intersection of three major faults. The Norris-Mammoth Corridor is a fault that runs from Norris north through Mammoth to the Gardiner, Montana, area. The Hebgen Lake fault runs from northwest of West Yellowstone, Montana, to Norris. This fault experienced an earthquake in 1959 that measured 7.4 on the Richter scale (sources vary on exact magnitude between 7.1 and 7.8; see 1959 Yellowstone earthquake). Norris Geyser Basin is so hot and dynamic because these two faults intersect with the ring fracture zone that resulted from the creation of the Yellowstone Caldera of 640,000 years ago.
95-gallon SSI Schaefer M-Series Recycling Cart
Basin Disposal, Inc.
Walla Walla, WA
September 2017
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96-gallon SSI Schaefer M-Series Refuse Cart
Basin Disposal, Inc.
Pasco, WA
June 2017
©Bryn Erdman. All Rights Reserved.
Copper Basin's OT-1 shuttle train heads up to the mine at Ray to be loaded. The train will return in a couple hours with loads for the crusher at Hayden. Photo taken at Kearny, Arizona 03-04-16.
CBRW (Columbia Basin Railroad)'s daily road freight from the BNSF connection at Connell, WA to Warden, WA is seen with a collection of first generation power, led by CBRW 652 ( a former SD9 rebuilt by previous owner Montana Rail Link to an SD19-1).
24 April 2023.
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Pine Creek Basin in the John Muir Wilderness. Notable Features: Lakes (l-r) Golden, Honeymoon, unnamed, Upper Pine, Lower Pine. Peaks (l-r) Peppermint Peak 12,680 (the striped east ridge of Bear Creek Spire), Mt Morgan (far left, 13,748 ft.), Broken Finger Peak (13,086), White Mtns (distant 14,000+)
Taken on a 4 day backpacking trip around the Rae Lakes Loop in the sierra, the trail on the second day opened up to this beautiful view of the Rae Lakes basin area in Kings National Park. The river in the photo flows out of the trio of Rae Lakes, through Arrowhead Lake, & winds it's way through lush meadows down the valley eventually ending up in the South Fork of Woods Creek. Fin Dome, Painted Lady, and a couple more peaks can be seen on the horizon.
I do have some travel photos left but of the couple thousand I think only a couple of hundred survived. Some I know I should pitch because they are not usable ( water and smoke damage )
Visited The Basin to see if any of the Pinkfoot geese had arrived for the winter yet. There were a couple of dozen at The Lurgies, but as I stalked them, creeping low behind the bushes, I unexpectedly came across the herd of cows which were on the (permissive) path, which caused me to pop up and scare the geese!
at Cheverie this evening. The Minas Basin tide was getting down...By now, after midnight, it will have raised about 50 feet vertically.
The Norris Geyser Basin is the hottest geyser basin in the park and is located near the northwest edge of Yellowstone Caldera near Norris Junction and on the intersection of three major faults. The Norris-Mammoth Corridor is a fault that runs from Norris north through Mammoth to the Gardiner, Montana, area. The Hebgen Lake fault runs from northwest of West Yellowstone, Montana, to Norris. This fault experienced an earthquake in 1959 that measured 7.4 on the Richter scale (sources vary on exact magnitude between 7.1 and 7.8; see 1959 Yellowstone earthquake). Norris Geyser Basin is so hot and dynamic because these two faults intersect with the ring fracture zone that resulted from the creation of the Yellowstone Caldera of 640,000 years ago.
I had never been to Big Basin this early in the year. I thought the basin would be full of buttercup flowers. Once we got there I was surprised at the lack of flowers.
Still, I was thrilled to see it in the spring.
No doubt we were the first people in the basin this spring
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A portion of the vast Hellas Basin, incorporating the transition of the fractured, terraced rim (top) into the smoother frost-covered basin floor (bottom).
The region was imaged by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express on 6 December 2015 during orbit 15127. The image is centred on 45ºS/48ºE and the ground resolution is about 52 m per pixel.
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area at night.
Not quite as good as my Las Vegas photo, but I like this because you can see almost all of LA proper here, from Oxnard and the Valley on down to South Central, Whittier and Pasadena to Santa Monica.
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ISO 800, f/3.5, 1/10 sec, 14mm (22mm/1.6 crop sensor).
Another lovely species to watch and photograph from the SWT visitor centre at Montrose Basin. Not the sharpest of shots and heavily cropped, but happy enough even to have seen this one and specially the Bittern too in the space of half an hour. (Yeah and all from the comfort of the heated visitor centre!)
Shot on a U3A photography group trip to Birmingham. That's probably one of us on the bridge!
Thanks for all the FLickr faves and comments that put this one in Explore.
The Norris Geyser Basin is the hottest geyser basin in the park and is located near the northwest edge of Yellowstone Caldera near Norris Junction and on the intersection of three major faults. The Norris-Mammoth Corridor is a fault that runs from Norris north through Mammoth to the Gardiner, Montana, area. The Hebgen Lake fault runs from northwest of West Yellowstone, Montana, to Norris. This fault experienced an earthquake in 1959 that measured 7.4 on the Richter scale (sources vary on exact magnitude between 7.1 and 7.8; see 1959 Yellowstone earthquake). Norris Geyser Basin is so hot and dynamic because these two faults intersect with the ring fracture zone that resulted from the creation of the Yellowstone Caldera of 640,000 years ago.
A portrait of Paddington Basin which is a great place to capture some architecture images until one deploys the tripod, at which point the security guards start to think that you are taking for commerical gain and approach. Nice folks though.
Driving into Badwater Basin which is an endorheic basin in Death Valley National Park, California, noted as the lowest point in North America, with an elevation of −279 ft (−85 m) below sea level. It was 48 deg C when we got out to walk around!
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Yankee Boy Basin is a little valley high in the San Juan Range of southwest Colorado with a number of small waterfalls along this little creek. In historic days, this was a substantial silver mining area. Nowadays, it's the tourists who mine the landscape for photographs.
The location is southwest of the resort town of Ouray.
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