Haynes new guide and motorists' complete road log of Yellowstone National Park . ter to a height of twohundred feet in a series of eruptions eclipsing Old Faithfuland occurring nearly every day. Adjacent to the Gl*and Geyse/r crater is the TurbanGeyser, which plays out of a small fissure next to themain crater of the Turban. When quiet, the largercrater often presents the appearance, in its interior, ofa dancing flame, caused by the light playing on the bub-bles of gas which constantly arise therefrom. Many ofthe early explorers really believed that internal fires werevisible here. Firehole La
Haynes new guide and motorists' complete road log of Yellowstone National Park . ter to a height of twohundred feet in a series of eruptions eclipsing Old Faithfuland occurring nearly every day. Adjacent to the Gl*and Geyse/r crater is the TurbanGeyser, which plays out of a small fissure next to themain crater of the Turban. When quiet, the largercrater often presents the appearance, in its interior, ofa dancing flame, caused by the light playing on the bub-bles of gas which constantly arise therefrom. Many ofthe early explorers really believed that internal fires werevisible here. Firehole Lake, at the Lower Basin, alsoaffords a good example of this phenomena. The Turbanplays twenty-five feet high and at an angle, eruptions last-ing an hour or more, and occurring with the Grand Geyserand at other times. The fittingly-named Economic Geyser is a fewrods north of the Turban; after its eruptions all the waterflows back into the crater and disappears. The Economicplays only fifteen or twenty feet high, but in its generalform resembles Old Faithful. 78 HAYNES NEW GUIDE. OBLONG GEYSER CRATER Beauty Spring, a large silent pool, is remarkable for its coloring and its highly ornamented Pool, nearby, is a good example of coloredgeyser formation; a rust color predominates in variousshades from yellow to richest brown, blending into greenand delicate pinks. The mushroom-like algous growthsseen in some of the bordering pools are of interest to thescientist who knows what an important part the algae havein the rate and manner of deposition of silica, and on ac-count of their peculiar forms and colors. The Oblong Geyser is on the opposite side of theFirehole Eiver from Chromatic Pool. Its crater is re-markable in that no better example of interior geyserstructure is seen in the entire park. Large globular massesof tan colored geyserite form the rim; the water is a deli-cate blue color and of such transparency that the twofissures in the bottom of the crater are pl
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