Octopus spring, famous for its white sediments around its edges. Also, there is an elk skeleton in the bottom that has been there for over 8 years. This spring is not acidic, so the skeleton last longer than in the springs with a ph of 2-3 or so.
Mushroom Spring, the source of Thermus aquaticus, a bacteria that gave us the TAQ enzyme, which has revolutionized PCR and molecular biology. This is the source of the Nobel Prize!
Grand Prismatic Spring, a large, hot pool surrounded by orange bacterial mats.
Lake Yellowstone, a large cool lake that is in the old caldera remnant of the volcano that blew up here 600 000 years ago. Under the surface there are hot vents where magma-heated water squirts out into the cool lake water. Many people have drowned on this lake too.
Octopus spring, famous for its white sediments around its edges. Also, there is an elk skeleton in the bottom that has been there for over 8 years. This spring is not acidic, so the skeleton last longer than in the springs with a ph of 2-3 or so.
Mushroom Spring, the source of Thermus aquaticus, a bacteria that gave us the TAQ enzyme, which has revolutionized PCR and molecular biology. This is the source of the Nobel Prize!
Grand Prismatic Spring, a large, hot pool surrounded by orange bacterial mats.
Lake Yellowstone, a large cool lake that is in the old caldera remnant of the volcano that blew up here 600 000 years ago. Under the surface there are hot vents where magma-heated water squirts out into the cool lake water. Many people have drowned on this lake too.
4 comments:
PCR? photo chemical reaction?
Pointless corrective rain?
painless current reconstruction?
Post-Crash Regrets?
Posting Craziness Repercussions?
Pointless Characters in a Row?
I like your pictures, but I am having a very hard time understanding how they sit in the landscape. I can't tell the scale of things...do you have some that show more of the scene?
Yep, next post will only be landscape pictures! Grand vistas! I guess I have only focused on the small so far, not the giant.
PCR - Polymerase Chain Reaction, a way to make a million copies of one tiny bit of DNA inside a test tube. We use the method all the time. But I like your abbreviations much better, especially "Pointless Characters in a Row"!
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