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Self-sealing multiple vents southeast of Opal Spring at Porcelain Terrace in Norris Geyser Basin. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1947.

Dates

Date Taken
1947

Summary

Album caption: Wyo - Y.S.N.P. Index card: Self-sealing multiple vents southeast of Opal Spring, Porcelain Terrace. Water in Opal is opalescent blue from light-scattering colloidal SiO2 polymerized in pool. Diameter of the pool is about 4 m. Norris Geyser Basin. Yellowstone National Park. Wyoming. September 1947. Published as Figure 7 in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional Paper 1456. 1988.

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Data Owner :
U.S. Geological Survey
Photographer :
White, Donald Edward

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