Castle Geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone is the worlds largest geyserite sinter cone.This sinter cone is thousands of years old, sitting on an even older platform and is the largest sinter formation in the world. Castle erupts every 13 hours for 20...
The geothermal area of the Norris Geyser Basin is the hottest and most dynamic part in the in volcanic caldera of Yellowstone. It is located near the northwest edge of the caldera where major faults in the earth crust faults intersect with the ring fracture zone that...
Plume Geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone erupts with a high fountain of boiling water and steam. As it passes through the vent in the ground, the water is set into rotation at high speed. This unique moment is frozen in time and backlit by the sun,...
One of the most alien-looking places on earth is Fly Geyser in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada. It is an incredible experience to admire the rising Milky Way above the boiling water spouting geyser at new moon. Standing in 50°C hot water and at the same time...
The Badwater Basin in the Death Valley in California is an endorheic basin, a closed drainage basin, that retains all water with no outflow. It contains a dried out salt lake full of mud cracks. Temperatures are oven-like and hold the record for North America’s...
