Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0225Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a geyser shooting out across a river. Above the image "T156 (Star)" is printed, below the image "V29588T Riverside eyser Spouts Its 100-Foot Jet Obliquely across Firehole River, Yellowstone Nat. Park, Wyo." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood, Inc. Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
V29588
RIVERSIDE GEYSE SENDING ITS 100-FOOT JET OBLIQUELY ACROSS FIREHOUSE RIVER
If we are so fortunate as to be there at the right time, once in every 6 or 7 hours, the first memorable spectacle we shall witness in the Upper Geyser Basin will be an eruption of Riverside Geyser. This mganificent spouter, standing at the foot of the Basin, which we enter by the highway from the N., projects a huge column of water and steam obliquely across the Firehole to a distance of between 80 and 100 feet. From its crater in the rocks on the very margin of the stream. Riverside is but one of the 26 geysers which, crowded into a little valley about a mile long and half-mile wide, together constitute the greatest geyser group in existence. The Norris Basin boasts 8 gushers and the Lower Basin 5, so that the Upper Basin has twice as many as the other two combined. In addition, it contains about 400 hot springs.
Its geysers and other thermal phenomena go to prove, according to the theory generally accepted, that vast bodies of heated lava surviving from the volcanic era exist close to the surface under the whole Yellowstone Park region, being particularly close to it in the valleys of the Firehole and Gibbon Rivers. On the other hand, Col. H. M. Chittenden, the noted historian of the Park, maintains that these phenomena can be attributed only to "the great reservoir of interal heat which here, as in all volcanic regions, must be presumed to lie near the surface." If Col. Chittenden is right there is no certainty that our Park may not sometime agin be devastated by an outburg of volcanic energy.Collection
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