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Mammoth Hot Springs, on Gardiner's River. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. circa 1872.

Dates

Date Taken
1872

Summary

Album caption and index card: Mammoth Hot Springs, on Gardiner's River. These springs cover an area of about four square miles on the right-hand side of Gardiner's River, some three miles above its junction with the Yellowstone. The temperature of the principal springs varies from 120° to the boiling point, and they hold in solution a large amount of calcareous matter, which has been deposited to a depth of many hundred feet. Upon the slopes the deposit takes the form of beautifully-scalloped basins filled with water of varying temperature, according to their remoteness from their source. The oxidation of the mineral substances contained in the water has stained the basins to every conceivable shade of red and yellow, forming rich [...]

Contacts

Data Owner :
U.S. Geological Survey
Photographer :
Jackson, William Henry

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Type Scheme Key
name photoLibrary jwh01193
number photoLibrary 19478
batch photoLibrary batch05
number_in_book photoLibrary 1193

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