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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holy shit!! there’s my hat and glasses!! I thought they were gone for good...
Have they found Jimmy Hoffa there (yet)?
Will never happen. Leftist judge has issued an Eternal Life Fatwa (ELF) on behalf of cherished grizzly bears in the Yellowstone region and no human, geologic nor planetary activity will be allowed to interfere.
Must be Kavanugh's. The investigation must be reopened.
No. Not reasonable.
Some of the “stuff” clearly was likely to have been “innocently” (ignorantly more accurately) dropped. Cell phone, pacifier, a few other things.)
Some are “accidently” dropped - but by “researchers” who screwed up their own hole! (The clamp and the funnel, the block (to anchor it in place for the sample), a few others).
The beer cans? The glass bottle? All of the coins? Yeah. Ignorant tourists.
Naaa...never was a hair head hippie. LOL
“Considering the caustic nature of geysers, it is impressive that anything survived that long.”
Geysers are dry until they ‘blow’ - perhaps a bit of occasional gas.
Talk about over reacting why does anyone listen to these people?
I can just see some guy, running off into the woods and then running back to his friends holding the chunk of cinderblock:
“Hey! Let’s throw this in and see what happens!”
Let’s face it. Guys disproportionally inhabit both the upper and lower ends of the IQ bell curve. All of us at some point or another have done something stupid like that.
A Freeper said recently during the Kavanaugh hearings that, the same impulse that causes a boy to try to light a fart on fire is the same impulse that has been responsible for all the great inventions in history.
Just sayin...:)
hmm. part of a beer bong and, a Binky!
Next to the pacifier looks to be an old Palm PDA...
Park officials also warned visitors that leaving trash to fall into the spring could damage the geyser.
Close enough for gov't work. What maroons.
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