Travertine Terraces
by Lars Hoffmann, Jülich, Germany
The photography shows travertine terraces at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park. Travertine is a form of limestone which is formed by a process of rapid precipitation of calcium carbonate. Over two tons of calcium carbonate was deposited each day on the terraces, gradually killing any vegetation that had managed to be growing before.
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- Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics (345)
- Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (901)
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3072 × 2304 px;
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Canon Powershot A610
Taken on 12
August
2007
Submitted on 10 March 2011
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
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Lars Hoffmann (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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