Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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Little Brother Geyser (2023) - Part 2
Geysers are hot springs that episodically erupt columns of water. They occur in few places on Earth. The highest concentration of geysers anywhere is at the Yellowstone Hotspot Volcano in northwestern Wyoming, USA.
Little Brother Geyser is in the Myriad Group of Yellowstone's Upper Geyser Basin. It is often dormant, but has been active during some seasons (e.g., 1983, 1999, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2022, 2023, and 2024). The geyser is part of the Three Sisters Spring complex, which includes South Sister Spring, Middle Sister Spring, North Sister Spring (usually mis-referred to as an unnamed feature), Mugwump Geyser, Three Crater Geyser, an unnamed feature designated "UNNG-MYR-1", and Little Brother Geyser. Usually, the water level of the complex is high enough for all of those features to be submerged. Normally, Three Crater Geyser is the only regularly-active feature in the area.
When active, Little Brother often has very frequent eruptions, with intervals as little as less than one minute. Many intervals are ~1 to 7 minutes, but they can be much longer and erratic. Eruptions are about 1 to 5 seconds in duration and involve one or more splashy spikes of water.
Little Brother Geyser videos:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dL6UmmXTBUO5FahXtXpW0jUNo4U9Vpv
Clips 1-4 - Little Brother Geyser eruptions on 14 June 2023.
Clips 5-28 - Little Brother Geyser eruptions on 16 June 2023. [time stamp 0:47]
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Little Brother Geyser (2023) - Part 2
Geysers are hot springs that episodically erupt columns of water. They occur in few places on Earth. The highest concentration of geysers anywhere is at the Yellowstone Hotspot Volcano in northwestern Wyoming, USA.
Little Brother Geyser is in the Myriad Group of Yellowstone's Upper Geyser Basin. It is often dormant, but has been active during some seasons (e.g., 1983, 1999, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2022, 2023, and 2024). The geyser is part of the Three Sisters Spring complex, which includes South Sister Spring, Middle Sister Spring, North Sister Spring (usually mis-referred to as an unnamed feature), Mugwump Geyser, Three Crater Geyser, an unnamed feature designated "UNNG-MYR-1", and Little Brother Geyser. Usually, the water level of the complex is high enough for all of those features to be submerged. Normally, Three Crater Geyser is the only regularly-active feature in the area.
When active, Little Brother often has very frequent eruptions, with intervals as little as less than one minute. Many intervals are ~1 to 7 minutes, but they can be much longer and erratic. Eruptions are about 1 to 5 seconds in duration and involve one or more splashy spikes of water.
Little Brother Geyser videos:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dL6UmmXTBUO5FahXtXpW0jUNo4U9Vpv
Clips 1-4 - Little Brother Geyser eruptions on 14 June 2023.
Clips 5-28 - Little Brother Geyser eruptions on 16 June 2023. [time stamp 0:47]
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![Topsoil Spring (2024) - Part 2
Topsoil Spring (2024) - Part 2
Hot springs are sites where groundwater emerges at the Earth’s surface (or on the seafloor). Hot spring water has to be higher in temperature than the human body (an arbitrary definition): over 98° Fahrenheit or over 37° Celsius. Geysers are hot springs that episodically erupt columns of water. The highest concentration of geysers and hot springs anywhere is at the Yellowstone Hotspot Volcano in northwestern Wyoming, USA.
Topsoil Spring is a small hot spring, about 1.3 x 1.6 meters in size, located in the Grand Group of Yellowstone’s Upper Geyser Basin. It is usually quiet, with a calm water surface. Yellowish-colored microbial mats can be present on the shallow floor of the spring. When the water is hotter, the microbial mats are absent. Occasionally, the pool’s water level is so low that only the central, funnel-shaped vent area is submerged. Topsoil’s activity includes roiling, overflowing, and occasional subterranean thumping. During some seasons, Topsoil Spring has small to moderately-small splashing eruptions.
Topsoil Spring videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dL6UmmXTBWOX2MNOG2LQgmOXtXw9hcc
Clips 1-7 - Topsoil Spring (with small eruptions) in the morning of 5 June 2024.
Clips 8-14 - Topsoil Spring (with small eruptions) in the mid-afternoon of 8 June 2024. [time stamp 3:51] Topsoil Spring (2024) - Part 2](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/L-R_qPTME7I/mqdefault.jpg)









