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Description: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The Cretaceous sedimentary rocks of Mount Everts are capped in the right half of the figure by Pleistocene volcanic rocks erupted from the Yellowstone caldera. Main Terrace in the Mammoth Hot Springs area (Jupiter Springs on the left, the blue pool of Main Spring in the center, and Canary Springs, marked by vapor plumes, on the right) is the light-colored travertine terrace in the middle of the figure. Foreground shows part of tree- studded Prospect Terrace. Figure 3, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1444.
Title: MountEvertsFromMammothTerraces
Credit: Dowloaded from USGS: http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/htmllib/batch93/batch93j/batch93z/batch93/bke00002.jpg
Author: K.E. Bargar
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