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Geysers are hot springs that episodically erupt columns of water. They occur in few places on Earth. The highest concentration of geysers anywhere is at the Yellowstone Hotspot Volcano in northwestern Wyoming, USA.
Tardy Geyser is a frequently-erupting member of the Sawmill Group in Yellowstone’s Upper Geyers Basin. It is located 19 meters southeast of Sawmill Geyser. They geyser has a subcircular basin with a centrally-located, funnel-like vent surrounded by a nicely pustulose geyserite platform. Ringing the platform is a splash pool that contains discoidal geyser beads, many of which have become cemented together. Tardy Geyser has two runoff channels. The more frequently used channel runs roughly southwest toward the Firehole River. The other channel extends northeast from Tardy’s basin, then heads east, then heads roughly south toward the Firehole River. This geyser usually has short-duration eruptions that last a few seconds to several minutes - this happens when nearby Sawmill Geyser is active. During a “Tardy Cycle”, the geyser will erupt continuously for 1 to 3 hours with no Sawmill activity. At such times, Tardy Geyser is the dominant member of the Sawmill Group. The northeast-to-east-to-south runoff channel is used during Tardy Cycle activity.
Geysers are hot springs that episodically erupt columns of water. They occur in few places on Earth. The highest concentration of geysers anywhere is at the Yellowstone Hotspot Volcano in northwestern Wyoming, USA.
Tardy Geyser is a frequently-erupting member of the Sawmill Group in Yellowstone’s Upper Geyers Basin. It is located 19 meters southeast of Sawmill Geyser. They geyser has a subcircular basin with a centrally-located, funnel-like vent surrounded by a nicely pustulose geyserite platform. Ringing the platform is a splash pool that contains discoidal geyser beads, many of which have become cemented together. Tardy Geyser has two runoff channels. The more frequently used channel runs roughly southwest toward the Firehole River. The other channel extends northeast from Tardy’s basin, then heads east, then heads roughly south toward the Firehole River. This geyser usually has short-duration eruptions that last a few seconds to several minutes - this happens when nearby Sawmill Geyser is active. During a “Tardy Cycle”, the geyser will erupt continuously for 1 to 3 hours with no Sawmill activity. At such times, Tardy Geyser is the dominant member of the Sawmill Group. The northeast-to-east-to-south runoff channel is used during Tardy Cycle activity.
Geysers are hot springs that episodically erupt columns of water. They occur in few places on Earth. The highest concentration of geysers anywhere is at the Yellowstone Hotspot Volcano in northwestern Wyoming, USA.
Tardy Geyser is a frequently-erupting member of the Sawmill Group in Yellowstone’s Upper Geyers Basin. It is located 19 meters southeast of Sawmill Geyser. The geyser has a subcircular basin with a centrally-located, funnel-like vent surrounded by a nicely pustulose geyserite platform. Ringing the platform is a splash pool that contains discoidal geyser beads, many of which have become cemented together. Tardy Geyser has two runoff channels. The more frequently used channel runs roughly southwest toward the Firehole River. The other channel extends northeast from Tardy’s basin, then heads east, then heads roughly south toward the Firehole River. This geyser usually has short-duration eruptions that last a few seconds to several minutes (for example, see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzE2z1ew-KE) - this happens when nearby Sawmill Geyser is active. During a “Tardy Cycle”, the geyser will erupt continuously for 1 to 3 hours with no Sawmill activity. At such times, Tardy Geyser is the dominant member of the Sawmill Group. The northeast-to-east-to-south runoff channel is used during Tardy Cycle activity.
The Legacy Park trail system, in Lee’s Summit, Mo., is part of a 700-acre multi-use area. It features more than 10 miles of trails through a pastoral environment, along a lakeshore and in and out of forest groves. While the majority of these trail miles are paved, the 1014 Loop is a single-track mountain bike trail of hard-packed dirt. The 1014 loop includes a spectacular waterfall, splash pool and limestone outcroppings. Wildlife is also abundant. The 22-acre Legacy Lake is surrounded by a trail loop and features canoes and stand-up paddleboards. Learn more about Legacy Park and trails in Lee’s Summit: bit.ly/2NOvvje
Geysers are hot springs that episodically erupt columns of water. They occur in few places on Earth. The highest concentration of geysers anywhere is at the Yellowstone Hotspot Volcano in northwestern Wyoming, USA.
Tardy Geyser is a frequently-erupting member of the Sawmill Group in Yellowstone’s Upper Geyers Basin. It is located 19 meters southeast of Sawmill Geyser. The geyser has a subcircular basin with a centrally-located, funnel-like vent surrounded by a nicely pustulose geyserite platform. Ringing the platform is a splash pool that contains discoidal geyser beads, many of which have become cemented together. Tardy Geyser has two runoff channels. The more frequently used channel runs roughly southwest toward the Firehole River. The other channel extends northeast from Tardy’s basin, then heads east, then heads roughly south toward the Firehole River. This geyser usually has short-duration eruptions that last a few seconds to several minutes (for example, see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzE2z1ew-KE) - this happens when nearby Sawmill Geyser is active. During a “Tardy Cycle”, the geyser will erupt continuously for 1 to 3 hours with no Sawmill activity. At such times, Tardy Geyser is the dominant member of the Sawmill Group. The northeast-to-east-to-south runoff channel is used during Tardy Cycle activity.
Asher and his friend Mac in the little splash pool in our backyard, during a Gaming with Babies session.
Geysers are hot springs that episodically erupt columns of water. They occur in few places on Earth. The highest concentration of geysers anywhere is at the Yellowstone Hotspot Volcano in northwestern Wyoming, USA.
Tardy Geyser is a frequently-erupting member of the Sawmill Group in Yellowstone’s Upper Geyers Basin. It is located 19 meters southeast of Sawmill Geyser. They geyser has a subcircular basin with a centrally-located, funnel-like vent surrounded by a nicely pustulose geyserite platform. Ringing the platform is a splash pool that contains discoidal geyser beads, many of which have become cemented together. Tardy Geyser has two runoff channels. The more frequently used channel runs roughly southwest toward the Firehole River. The other channel extends northeast from Tardy’s basin, then heads east, then heads roughly south toward the Firehole River. This geyser usually has short-duration eruptions that last a few seconds to several minutes - this happens when nearby Sawmill Geyser is active. During a “Tardy Cycle”, the geyser will erupt continuously for 1 to 3 hours with no Sawmill activity. At such times, Tardy Geyser is the dominant member of the Sawmill Group. The northeast-to-east-to-south runoff channel is used during Tardy Cycle activity.
KIDS! On this 14 day cruise on the Island Princess through the Panama Canal we only had maybe 6-8 children.
Geysers are hot springs that episodically erupt columns of water. They occur in few places on Earth. The highest concentration of geysers anywhere is at the Yellowstone Hotspot Volcano in northwestern Wyoming, USA.
Tardy Geyser is a frequently-erupting member of the Sawmill Group in Yellowstone’s Upper Geyers Basin. It is located 19 meters southeast of Sawmill Geyser. They geyser has a subcircular basin with a centrally-located, funnel-like vent surrounded by a nicely pustulose geyserite platform. Ringing the platform is a splash pool that contains discoidal geyser beads, many of which have become cemented together. Tardy Geyser has two runoff channels. The more frequently used channel runs roughly southwest toward the Firehole River. The other channel extends northeast from Tardy’s basin, then heads east, then heads roughly south toward the Firehole River. This geyser usually has short-duration eruptions that last a few seconds to several minutes - this happens when nearby Sawmill Geyser is active. During a “Tardy Cycle”, the geyser will erupt continuously for 1 to 3 hours with no Sawmill activity. At such times, Tardy Geyser is the dominant member of the Sawmill Group. The northeast-to-east-to-south runoff channel is used during Tardy Cycle activity.
The Legacy Park trail system, in Lee’s Summit, Mo., is part of a 700-acre multi-use area. It features more than 10 miles of trails through a pastoral environment, along a lakeshore and in and out of forest groves. While the majority of these trail miles are paved, the 1014 Loop is a single-track mountain bike trail of hard-packed dirt. The 1014 loop includes a spectacular waterfall, splash pool and limestone outcroppings. Wildlife is also abundant. The 22-acre Legacy Lake is surrounded by a trail loop and features canoes and stand-up paddleboards. Learn more about Legacy Park and trails in Lee’s Summit: bit.ly/2NOvvje
Geysers are hot springs that episodically erupt columns of water. They occur in few places on Earth. The highest concentration of geysers anywhere is in Yellowstone’s Upper Geyser Basin (northwestern Wyoming, USA).
Big Anemone Geyser is a frequently erupting small geyser in the southern Geyser Hill Group. It is immediately adjacent to Little Anemone Geyser - together they make up “Anemone Geyser”. Big Anemone has a nearly circular basin with a central vent and lacks a well-defined border. Encircling the cream-colored to grayish, smooth geyserite-floored vent area is abundant, well-formed, closely spaced nodules of grayish geyserite (columnar geyserite & pseudocolumnar geyserite), similar in appearance to cave popcorn (coralloids). Some small biscuit-like masses of grayish geyserite are present on the northern side of the geyser, often with apical puckered structures. The geyserite biscuits are in and along a small, irregularly-shaped, eruption splash pool. The diameter of Big Anemone Geyser, as measured across its nodulose geyserite area, is about 2.5 meters. The diameter of the feature, as measured from the outer edge of its colorful, encircling microbial mats, is about 4.5 to 5 meters.
Big Anemone’s geyserite is especially well-formed and attractive. Geyserite is a friable to solid chemical sedimentary rock composed of opal (hydrous silica, a.k.a. opaline silica: SiO2•nH2O), It forms by precipitation of hydrous silica from hot spring water. Geyserite is the dominant material at & around Yellowstone hot springs and geysers (the Mammoth Hot Springs area is a major exception to this). The silica in the geyserite is ultimately derived from leaching of subsurface, late Cenozoic-aged rhyolitic rocks by superheated groundwater. Rhyolite is an abundant rock at Yellowstone.
Big Anemone Geyser has frequent, moderately low to medium-sized, splashing eruptions. Eruption durations are about half a minute long. Intervals between eruption starts range from about 7 minutes to almost half-an-hour. Eruption activity at adjacent Little Anemone Geyser has a delaying affect on Big Anemone’s eruption frequency. Eruption cessations at Big Anemone Geyser are impressive, rapid pool drains. Most of the erupted water ends up back in its own vent. Some eruption splash water enters Little Anemone’s basin or its runoff channel.
The Legacy Park trail system, in Lee’s Summit, Mo., is part of a 700-acre multi-use area. It features more than 10 miles of trails through a pastoral environment, along a lakeshore and in and out of forest groves. While the majority of these trail miles are paved, the 1014 Loop is a single-track mountain bike trail of hard-packed dirt. The 1014 loop includes a spectacular waterfall, splash pool and limestone outcroppings. Wildlife is also abundant. The 22-acre Legacy Lake is surrounded by a trail loop and features canoes and stand-up paddleboards. Learn more about Legacy Park and trails in Lee’s Summit: bit.ly/2NOvvje
Geysers are hot springs that episodically erupt columns of water. They occur in few places on Earth. The highest concentration of geysers anywhere is at the Yellowstone Hotspot Volcano in northwestern Wyoming, USA.
Tardy Geyser is a frequently-erupting member of the Sawmill Group in Yellowstone’s Upper Geyers Basin. It is located 19 meters southeast of Sawmill Geyser. The geyser has a subcircular basin with a centrally-located, funnel-like vent surrounded by a nicely pustulose geyserite platform. Ringing the platform is a splash pool that contains discoidal geyser beads, many of which have become cemented together. Tardy Geyser has two runoff channels. The more frequently used channel runs roughly southwest toward the Firehole River. The other channel extends northeast from Tardy’s basin, then heads east, then heads roughly south toward the Firehole River. This geyser usually has short-duration eruptions that last a few seconds to several minutes (for example, see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzE2z1ew-KE) - this happens when nearby Sawmill Geyser is active. During a “Tardy Cycle”, the geyser will erupt continuously for 1 to 3 hours with no Sawmill activity. At such times, Tardy Geyser is the dominant member of the Sawmill Group. The northeast-to-east-to-south runoff channel is used during Tardy Cycle activity.