Cone of an extinct hot spring or geyser. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1871.
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1871
Summary
Album caption and index card: The cone of an extinct hot spring or geyser upon the east fork of the Yellowstone River. A very curious mammiform mound, of about 40 feet in height, built up by overlapping layers like the Cap of Liberty on Gardiners River. The material is principally calcareous. No water issues from the cone at the present time, and none of the springs in the immediate vicinity are above the ordinary temperature of brook water. [Yellowstone National Park] Wyoming. 1871. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1871 Series, page 32, Nos. 305, 306, 307: The cone of an extinct hot spring or geyser upon the [...]
Summary
Album caption and index card: The cone of an extinct hot spring or geyser upon the east fork of the Yellowstone River. A very curious mammiform mound, of about 40 feet in height, built up by overlapping layers like the Cap of Liberty on Gardiners River. The material is principally calcareous. No water issues from the cone at the present time, and none of the springs in the immediate vicinity are above the ordinary temperature of brook water. [Yellowstone National Park] Wyoming. 1871.
Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1871 Series, page 32, Nos. 305, 306, 307: The cone of an extinct hot spring or geyser upon the east fork of the Yellowstone River. A very curious mammiform mound, of about forty feet in height, built up by overlapping layers like Cap of Liberty on Gardiner's River. The material is principally calcareous. No water issues from the cone at the present time, and none of the springs in the immediate vicinity are above the ordinary temperature of brook-water.
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Descriptive catalogue of the photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories for the years 1869 to 1875, inclusive: Miscellaneous publications - No. 5
Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Photographic Collection, Jackson, W.H. Collection.
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