Lonely at Mammoth Hot Springs
by Rob Hemphill
Title
Lonely at Mammoth Hot Springs
Artist
Rob Hemphill
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
I do not know how this little tree ever got a foothold in the hostile environment of this travertine terrace at Mammoth Hot Springs, but alas now it is devoid of life.
Mammoth Hot Springs is a large complex of hot springs on a hill of travertine in Yellowstone National Park adjacent to Fort Yellowstone and the Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District.
It was created over thousands of years as hot water from the spring cooled and deposited calcium carbonate (over two tons flow into Mammoth each day in a solution). Because of the huge amount of geothermal vents, travertine flourishes.
Although these springs lie outside the caldera boundary, their energy has been attributed to the same magmatic system that fuels other Yellowstone geothermal areas.
The hot water that feeds Mammoth comes from Norris Geyser Basin after traveling underground via a fault line that runs through limestone and roughly parallel to the Norris-to-Mammoth road.
The limestone from rock formations along the fault is the source of the calcium carbonate. Shallow circulation along this corridor allows Norris's superheated water to slightly cool before surfacing at Mammoth, generally at about 170 °F (80 °C). Algae living in the warm pools have tinted the travertine shades of brown, orange, red, and green. (from Wikipedia)
***************************************************
Featured in the following FAA Groups:
"World Landscape Lovers of Art" 03/12/2020
"New FAA Uploads" 03/04/2020
"World Art Spotlight" 03/01/2020
"Your Story of Art" 02/27/2020
"Orange-Yellow-Red Photos and Paints" 02/27/2020
"Daily Promotion" 02/26/2020
***************************************************
Uploaded
February 24th, 2020
Statistics
Viewed 497 Times - Last Visitor from New York, NY on 03/28/2024 at 11:53 AM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet