Author: Groupe Mia

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Published: 2021-09-14

Total Pages: 26

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Some of America s most dramatic landscapes can be found at Yellowstone National Park. Home to North American s largest super volcano, Yellowstone s geysers prove that lava is still bubbling beneath the park s nearly 3,500 square miles. Undaunted, more than four million people visit the park each year to see the vast range of mountains, lakes, rivers, fauna, flora, and of course, Old Faithful. Locations pictured in the 2022 edition include: The Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River are found about one-quarter mile beyond the Upper Falls. Lower Falls measures 308 feet tall and is the largest waterfall by volume in the U.S. Rocky Mountains. White Dome Geyser erupts from one of the most beautiful and largest cones in Yellowstone. Eruptions occur erratically, but most often at half-hour intervals. They last about two minutes and reach about 30 feet into the air. Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is the first large canyon downstream from the Yellowstone Falls. The canyon is 24 miles long, from 800 and 1,200 feet deep and between 1300 and 4000 feet wide and is seen here from the platform at the top of the Lower Falls. Opal Terrace, is part of the Mammoth Hot Springs complex. Hot water from the springs which is deposited as it cools and forms a material called travertine of which the terraces are composed. Yellowstone s official flower, Rocky Mountain fringed gentian, blooms in a meadow near Lower Geyser Basin Soda Butte Creek flows beneath peaks that soar 10,000 feet above it. On the horizon at left is Barronette Peak (at 10,354 feet the peak was named to honor Jack Baronette who built the first bridge across the Yellowstone River, but the survey misspelled his name) and on the right is Abiather Peak at 10,928 feet tall. Rocky Mountain pond lilies are coming into flower in a small pond surrounded by grasses while fireweed blooms among the burned trees in the background. Epilobium angustifolium colonizes quickly in sections of forest disturbed by fire, hence its common name. Fireweed is part of the primrose family. Part of the Mammoth Hot Springs Terraces, Minerva Spring creates constantly changing, delicately-sculpted travertine formations, however, the flow of water from the spring has been inconsistent. It was dry in the 1900s, but began to flow again in the 1950s. Morning Glory Pool is a hot spring that erupts only rarely, but it notable for its remarkable colors of its rim. The colors are actually thermophilic bacteria that live in the pool s different water temperatures. Deposits of calcite add color to Calcite Springs, the pale slope near river level along this bend in the Yellowstone. Rising steam pushes calcite to the surface turning it whitish yellow. Grotto Geyser is part of a group of geysers in the Upper Geyser Basin. A member of the 1870 expedition who discovered and named the geyser climbed into one of its openings and when the geyser erupted realized that he had barely escaped being cooked in the boiling water. Water and steam erupt from the Grand Geyser in Upper Geyser Basin. This fountain geyser is the largest of its kind in Yellowstone. Eruptions reach a height of 200 feet and last from nine to 12 minutes every 7 to 15 hours.