Opalescent Pool Yellowstone NP
by Teresa Zieba
Title
Opalescent Pool Yellowstone NP
Artist
Teresa Zieba
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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Located in Black Sand Basin in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA
Opalescent Pool is another colorful pool, and has a cooler temperature than other thermal features at Black Sand Basin. Early in its history Opalescent was a boiling spring, surrounded by smaller springs. By the early 1950s it was nearly a dry pool. The Spouter Geyser began erupting and its run-off flowed into Opalescent Pool. The increased water flow flooded the surrounding area, killing the lodgepole pine. Since then silica has precipitated upon the dead tree trunks creating the white skeleton of trees. This silica, a non-crystalline compound, slowly impregnates the wood and over time, with the absence of oxygen, could eventually petrify the wood. Opalescent Pool offers a magnificent contrast in its natural creation of white skeletons amidst a rainbow colored pool.
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February 2nd, 2012
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