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Yellowstone’s Ear Spring erupts for first time in recent memory; officials close boardwalks...
KSL ^ | Sep 20th, 2018 @ 10:01am | Nate Eaton, EastIdahoNews.com | Posted -

Posted on 09/23/2018 9:44:46 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Ear Spring went from being dormant on Saturday to spewing steam and water between 20 and 30 feet high, a height not recorded since 1957, said park spokesman Neal Herbert.

On Saturday tourists and surveillance cameras captured the rare eruption around 4:50 p.m. Ear Spring contains permanently seething water at or above boiling point. The ear-shaped pool has been known to erupt to a height of around 2 feet, but officials say that only happens one or two times each decade.

Geyser Hill lies across the Firehole River from Old Faithful and features dozens of hot springs, geysers and fumaroles (openings where steam and volcanic gasses are emitted).

The eruption of Ear Spring comes the same year that the Steamboat Geyser is experiencing record-breaking activity. So far the geyser has erupted 19 times in 2018 with the latest eruption happening Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

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TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; earspring; fireholeriver; geyserhill; heybooboo; jellystone; oldfaithful; steamboatgeyser; wyoming; yellowstone
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1 posted on 09/23/2018 9:44:46 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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2 posted on 09/23/2018 9:47:45 AM PDT by deadrock
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3 posted on 09/23/2018 9:47:45 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Boardwalk
4 posted on 09/23/2018 9:51:52 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (alea iacta est)
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To: BenLurkin

Local TV video.

https://youtu.be/aLJlMCNmecs

2:01, no sound.


5 posted on 09/23/2018 9:52:21 AM PDT by GRRRRR (Make America Greater Than Ever Before!)
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6 posted on 09/23/2018 9:52:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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7 posted on 09/23/2018 9:53:36 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Erupting geysers.

Just another excuse for the slut puppy not to make it to DC on time.


8 posted on 09/23/2018 9:55:23 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Are you Humbly Grateful or Grumbly Hateful?)
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I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if the left had her murdered and blamed it on us.


9 posted on 09/23/2018 10:16:39 AM PDT by null and void (The big problem is that the republicans don't keep their campaign promises and the democrats do!)
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First time in recent memory?? I didn’t know 1957 was ancient?? According to my kids I am, but...really...(must be Trump’s fault)


10 posted on 09/23/2018 10:46:48 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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More Glo Bull Warming Proof


11 posted on 09/23/2018 10:49:12 AM PDT by truth_seeker ( ^^\/**|_|**\/ ^^)
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Recent memory as opposed to living memory, I guess.


12 posted on 09/23/2018 10:57:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: null and void; SunkenCiv

“Suicide by bridge abusement” (er, abutment! Bridge abutment!) .


13 posted on 09/23/2018 11:34:00 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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Which movie is that?


14 posted on 09/23/2018 11:51:41 AM PDT by deadrock
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To: Robert A Cook PE; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; ...
The eruption of Ear Spring comes the same year that the Steamboat Geyser is experiencing record-breaking activity. So far the geyser has erupted 19 times in 2018 with the latest eruption happening Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.



15 posted on 09/23/2018 1:27:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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LOL! One of my favorite commercials! Thanks!
:o]

‘Face


16 posted on 09/23/2018 1:47:45 PM PDT by Monkey Face (The soul usually knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.)
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Another reason to not visit a tourist trap. Thanks, SC!

:o])

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17 posted on 09/23/2018 1:49:32 PM PDT by Monkey Face (The soul usually knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.)
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The movie is “2012” and that was Woody Harrelson’s final scene, after a flying mountain lands on him.


18 posted on 09/23/2018 2:07:11 PM PDT by DNME (The only solution to a BAD guy with a gun is a GOOD guy with a gun. Period.)
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Thanks.


19 posted on 09/23/2018 2:09:28 PM PDT by deadrock
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Regarding Null and Void’s comment, it would be just as easy for the right to kill Ford and blame the left. President Trump has been blaming Democrats for things that don’t seem to make sense as argued. Also, now that Patti nee Reagan has said she finds Fords account believable based on her own ugly experience 40 years ago, there is even more visability to this whole mess and there would be even more intense investigation if something were to happen.

https://wtvr.com/2018/09/22/ronald-reagans-daughter-patti-davis-reveals-rape/


20 posted on 09/23/2018 2:11:46 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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