Jadyne asked a ranger why so many trees were dead. “Winter,” he replied.
Not the park, just the “town.”
Geysers are caused when superheated water encounters an obstruction on its way to the surface. Hot pools merely bubble, as the water is not obstructed on the way up.
June, 2021. A man who died at Yellowstone National Park back in June was completely dissolved in acidic water after trying to 'hot pot' - or soak himself - in the waters of one of the park's hot springs, an official report has concluded.
Darwin lives.
Steamboat Geyser last erupted in late August, Unpredictable, it’s the largest geyser in Yellowstone.
Limestone, deposited here millions of years ago when a vast sea covered this area, provides the final ingredient. Hot water with dissolved carbon dioxide makes a solution of weak carbonic acid. As the solution rises through rock, it dissolves calcium carbonate, the primary compound in limestone. At the surface, the calcium carbonate is deposited in the form of travertine, the rock that forms the terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs.
