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Title
Yellowstone Mammoth Hot Springs
Artist
Paul Quinn
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
Mammoth Hot Springs is another unique feature of Yellowstone National Park because it so different from other thermal areas in the area. This is largely because limestone is a relatively soft rock, allowing the travertine formations to grow much faster than other formations. It has been described as looking like a cave turned inside out.
How this was formed is very interesting. The rain and melted snow seeps into the earth. The water, already cold is quickly warmed by heat radiating from a partially molten magma chamber deep underground, the remnant of a cataclysmic volcanic explosion that occurred 600,000 years ago. The now hot water rises up through a system of small fissures, or cracks and interacts with hot gases and carbonic acid solution is formed. When it moves to the surface and mixes with the cold air, it solidifies and this is what you are left with!
Copyright Paul R Quinn 2018
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December 9th, 2018
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