Yellowstone National Park
This national park, created by the federal government on March 1, 1872, covers an area of 3,468 square miles in parts of northwest Wyoming, Eastern Idaho, Southern Montana and it sits on a high plateau at an elevation of 8000 feet.
Topography of Yellowstone National Park Source: www.berann.com/panorama/ yellowstone_l.jpg
Yellowstone is the oldest and best known national park in the United States. This park features the largest and most spectacular thermal area on earth with over 10,000 geysers, hot springs, mud pots, and colorful travertine terraces. These features are all credited to the believed “hot spot” it lies over.
Old Faithful is one of the Parks most well known geysers in the park, it was named so because of its consistent performance observed by the 1870 Washburn Expedition. Source: www.cs.washington.edu/.../ Image04.jpg
Hot Springs are pools of hot water that have seeped to earth's surface, the source of their heat is the hot magma beneath and they can reach temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Source: forum.fok.nl/ topic/594556/3/25
Mud pots are a feature of the park that smell like rotten eggs because of the small amounts of hot water bubbling up where hydrogen sulfide gas is present, the mixture is often clay like. Source: www.geocities.com/.../ yellowstone/mudpots.html
At Mammoth Hot Springs you can find travertine terraces which is limestone deposited in a terrace like form. Source: www.xanterra-corporate.com/ xanterra/galleries...
Some other wonders of this national park include lakes, waterfalls, cirques, high mountain meadows, petrified trees, Obsidian Cliff and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River.
Yellowstone Lake Source: www.mikelevin.com/ YellowstoneLakeSunset2b-800.jpg
Tower Falls, where Tower Creek joins the Yellowstone River Source: www.shannontech.com/.../ Yellowstone.html
Lamar Valley Source: www.bigskyfishing.com/.../lamar_river.htm
Petrified Trees were buried by volcanic ash that petrifying them. Source:www.answersingenesis.org/.../i2/yellowstone.asp
Obsidian Cliff is a unique feature at Yellowstone, it is an exposed area where thick rhyolite lava flow erupted about 180,000 years ago. Obsidian is a dark volcanic glass. Source: http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2005/3024/
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River Source: www.photo.net/photo/ pcd1640/yellowstone-canyon...
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