Canary Spring from even farther away. OK, some of the more distant parts might be considered Jupiter Terrace. There are many named springs at Mammoth Hot Springs, but their activity shifts around a lot. Probably has something to do with all those tons of travertine getting deposited every day and sealing vents up or building the pools up so high the water finds an easier way to get to the surface. The entire mountain the modern hot spring area is on is all hot spring deposits.
Canary Spring from a bit farther away. The water deposits the travertine fastest where it flows over the edge of, say, one of these terraced pools. So the pools build themselves higher and higher until something cracks or collapses.
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Detail of the pool edge of one of the terraced hot spring pools of Canary Spring at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone. The hot water is depositing a rock called travertine.
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Dalmatian toadflax, or maybe butter and eggs, growing along the roadside in Yellowstone. Either way it is a figwort and an exotic invasive species and also pretty.
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Basalt columns at the Sheepeater Cliff, Yellowstone National Park. Random tourist included to indicate scale.
fat-birds: ”Punggok” / Buffy Fish Owl (Bubo ketupu)
(photo by razifmasri | Flickr)
A penstemon, possibly Penstemon cyaneus. It was growing in the gravelly parking lots at Old Faithful in Yellowstone.