Globetrotting December 2024 # 8 United States

The final shot of our travels takes us to the United States and to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, that we have been lucky to visit twice . I have enjoyed this trip I think I will do it next December its a useful antidote to Christmas

 

The Mammoth Hot Spring is a large complex of hot springs on a hill of travertine in Yellowstone Park. Over thousands of years as hot water from the spring cooled and deposited calcium carbonate (over two tons flow into Mammoth each day in a solution). Although these springs lie outside the caldera boundary, their energy has been attributed to the same magmatic system that fuels other Yellowstone geothermal areas. The hot water that feeds Mammoth comes from Norris Geyser Basin after travelling underground via a fault line that runs through limestone. The limestone from the rock formations along the fault is the source of the calcium carbonate. Shallow circulation along this corridor allows Norris' superheated water to slightly cool before surfacing at Mammoth, generally at about 80 °C.

 

 

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