geysers in yellowstone Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/geysers-in-yellowstone Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:40:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 The Sources and the Plumbing Yellowstone http://toursmaps.com/sources-plumbing-yellowstone.html http://toursmaps.com/sources-plumbing-yellowstone.html#respond Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:00:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=206967 Snowmelt and rainfall provide the water by soaking into the ground locally and from the surrounding mountain ranges. The water flows deep into the geyser basin as groundwater, reaching many hundreds of feet (meters) below ground level, as shown in the diagram. The still-hot volcanic rocks found below Yellowstone’s geyser basins provide the source for heating the water. The rocks continually receive more heat where there is magma (molten rock) a few miles below. The plumbing that all geysers have consists of a vent connected to a narrow crack that goes down into the hot rocks, widening into chambers and

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