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Mud Springs at Crater Hills. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1871.

Dates

Date Taken
1871

Summary

Handwritten notes on album caption: 57-HS-95. W.H. Jackson photo. 1871 Yellowstone Series. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1871 Series, page 28, No. 261: Mud Springs, at Crater Hills, near the Sulphur Spring. The contents of this spring is a fine, siliceous, pearl-colored mud, the consistency of thick, hasty-pudding. The surface is covered with puffs of mud, which, as they burst, give off a thud-like noise, and then the paint-like liquid recedes from the center of the puffs in a perfect series of rings to the side. The explosion is produced by the escape of sulfureted hydrogen-gas through the mud.

Contacts

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

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Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Photographic Collection, Jackson, W.H. Bound Album Collection, (200)1 HMi 1871 v. 2.

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