Posted on 10/04/2018 9:43:52 AM PDT by ETL
A Yellowstone geyser made its largest eruption in about 60 years last month when it shot water about 30 feet into the air, the U.S. Geological Survey said last week.
The eruption, which occurred on Sept. 15, was the largest since 1957. Officials said aside from water the geyser also spewed years of trash buildup that had been left in the hot spring, the Yellowstone National Park wrote in a Facebook post.
“After Ear Spring erupted on September 15, employees found a strange assortment of items strewn across the landscape around its vent! Some are clearly historic: they'll be inventoried by curators and may end up in Yellowstone's archives,” the Facebook post read.
Park officials also warned visitors that leaving trash to fall into the spring could damage the geyser.
“Foreign objects can damage hot springs and geysers. The next time Ear Spring erupts we hope it's nothing but natural rocks and water. You can help by never throwing anything into Yellowstone's thermal features!”
Photos posted on the park’s Facebook page showed several coins, a pacifier and a cement block, among other items, the Miami Herald reported.
The eruption led to fears of volcanic activity below the geyser. However, the agency said there was no “signs of impending volcanic activity.”
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Gee, look at all the plastic straws
Wait... Are those Rose Law Firm records?!?
You know about people, right? They’re the worst.
I wonder what happened to the kid who was attached to the pacifier.
Park officials also warned visitors that leaving trash to fall into the spring could damage the geyser.
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Good grief! Who would throw trash in there? Understandable that people did this many, many years ago, just as it was once acceptable to dump garbage in waterways, but what kind of idiot would do that today?
Perhaps yours is an Oxi-Clean hot springs...
Is that Barry Hussein’s birth certificate at the back of the table?
That was Joe Dirt.
Lol!
Concrete Brick ,really ,who carries those around
If that’s decades’ worth of trash, I’d say it’s better than most places. I have picked up more than that at numerous campsites. Litterers should be thrown in the geyser.
I lost my pet concrete block down that wretched hole back in 1961. Thanks for finding it!
Oh, was that you in the gif I just posted?
:)
Won’t matter a whit, when the whole caldera blows.
Or when the earth gets swallowed up by the expanding sun 4 or 5 billion years from now.
Yeah, that too!
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