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About Yellowstone’s Geysers

editor — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 06:40:00 +0000

The number of hot springs in the park has been estimated to be around 10,000; geysers active at any one time number at least 500. No one knows the exact numbers. However, the Y.N.P. Spatial Analysis Center is now assembling a baseline inventory of geothermal features. Since 2006 the Thermal Biology Institute of Montana State University at Bozeman has been using this inventory to provide an online data set and to coordinate the efforts of thermal researchers. Browse the geothermal features database at: www.rcn. montana.edu/resources/. Some people are not enthralled by geyser basins. You might agree with Owen Wister, author

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Black Water and Travertine Yellowstone

editor — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 02:40:00 +0000

Why are Firehole Lake and some of the nearby springs black? There are large amounts of manganese oxide being deposited, more than anywhere else in the park. In fact, George Henderson, tour guide in the 1880s and ’90s, liked to call this part of the Firehole River valley Ebony Basin. Around Firehole Lake, the mineral travertine, which is calcium carbonate in the form deposited by hot springs, is deposited along with geyserite (silicon dioxide). This is unusual, because in all but four of the park’s thermal areas, the geysers and hot springs deposit only geyserite. At Mammoth Hot Springs, the

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