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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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To: BenLurkin

Should I bother going on a diet or is the end near enough to eat a slice of key lime pie?


21 posted on 09/23/2018 2:12:52 PM PDT by CaptainK ("no collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker")
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To: Deplorable American1776; BenLurkin; SunkenCiv; All

Sounds like something hot is moving closer to the surface.


22 posted on 09/23/2018 2:13:20 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
President Trump has been blaming Democrats for things that don’t seem to make sense as argued.

Do Tell.

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.

Patti Reagan...Well, that cinches it, then.

Good Lord. 😣

23 posted on 09/23/2018 2:19:14 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Are you Humbly Grateful or Grumbly Hateful?)
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To: gleeaikin
I thought you'd like this one. :^)

24 posted on 09/23/2018 2:31:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Monkey Face
I've managed to avoid our fine system of national parks so far. I do wish I'd had the time to, and visited, Meteor Crater during a trip out west years ago.

25 posted on 09/23/2018 2:36:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: gleeaikin

Doesn’t matter, as long as it delays the Kavanaugh vote and suppresses republican turnout on the mid-terms.

Besides, who would investigate? The same people who found Hillary innocent a month before she was interviewed?


26 posted on 09/23/2018 2:49:32 PM 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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To: CaptainK
There’s always room in life for key lime pie🙂.
27 posted on 09/24/2018 3:43:30 PM PDT by Redcitizen (I don't always lurk, but when I do, Freerepublic.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Best hole in the ground I ever saw. You ought to check it out. The chances of another meteor hitting the same spot is nil. You know what they say about lightning strikin


28 posted on 09/24/2018 3:47:04 PM PDT by Redcitizen (I don't always lurk, but when I do, Freerepublic.)
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To: Redcitizen
It's merely low, it's never nil. ;^) And it's not a national monument or national park, but seems to do just fine.

29 posted on 09/24/2018 3:55:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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