Mammoth Hot Springs
Yellowstone National Park has numerous hot springs. The Mammoth Hot Springs were formed when calcium carbonate melted at high temperatures and then reformed when cooled. I visited more hot springs south of these near the Norris Geyser in Yellowstone. As I was leaving, a group of rangers appeared to be running at full speed in the directions from which I had come. That night, I read that a student from Oregon, who was with his sister, had fallen or had jumped into one of the hot springs in an area about 200 yards from the prescribed path. The body dissolved in the boiling water, but unlike the calcium carbonate, did not reform.
Mammoth Hot Springs
Yellowstone National Park has numerous hot springs. The Mammoth Hot Springs were formed when calcium carbonate melted at high temperatures and then reformed when cooled. I visited more hot springs south of these near the Norris Geyser in Yellowstone. As I was leaving, a group of rangers appeared to be running at full speed in the directions from which I had come. That night, I read that a student from Oregon, who was with his sister, had fallen or had jumped into one of the hot springs in an area about 200 yards from the prescribed path. The body dissolved in the boiling water, but unlike the calcium carbonate, did not reform.