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National Geographic : 1960 Mar
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NATIONALGEOGRAPHICPHOTOGRAPHERJ. BAYLORROBERTS© N.G .S. Cabins float and trees drown as 'Quake Lake creeps up the walls of Madison Canyon up their performances. Clepsydra, which had erupted only about every four days, went into a continuous "wild phase," pouring out enough steam to drive most of the heat and power plants in the park. Cascade Geyser, which had not erupted for 40 years, blew its top. Economic Geyser, still for 25 years, began playing 50 feet high every half hour. The Giantess fountained as high as 200 feet for more than four days of uninterrupted glory. Grand Geyser, one of the highest perform ers in the park, quit cold. But, as if in repay ment, an entirely new "Earthquake Geyser" began playing 75 and 100 feet high at the end of a steam-spouting rift in the Lower Geyser Basin. Most dramatically, Sapphire Pool in Biscuit Basin changed from a serene, limpid dispenser of silvery gas bubbles to a seething, soaring giant among geysers (page 358). Not until three weeks after the first earth 349
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