Soda Springs on Bear River. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1871.

Album caption: Soda Springs on Bear River, Extinct Basins, Hot Spring Series. Handwritten notes on album caption: 316. New no. 57-HS-117 USGS in National Archives. 1871. See W.H. Jackson's description re preserved plants, leaf, and stems. 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. 316, 317: Extinct Soda Spring Basin. About three miles up the valley of a small tributary of the Bear River we come to a most remarkable formation, consisting of the basins of old springs long extinct. They are called the "petrifying springs" by the settlers, from the abundance of calcareous tufa which exists in the [...]