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Norris Geyser Basin, Upper Geyser Basin, Lower Geyser Basin, Mammoth Hot Springs, Geothermal features of Yellowstone

What's in the water to have it boiling below 100 °? In particulary, it being "superheated" at 204°F seems a bit odd. Vicki Rosenzweig 01:14 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Not in the water but the air. The Yellowstone plateau (on which the majority of the geothermal area sit) is at an average elevation of 8,000 feet. --mav

The article says that there are six geothermal areas -I only noticed 4 in the article. What are the others? Rmhermen 20:18, Feb 10, 2004 (UTC)

West Thumb Geyser Basin and Mud Volcano/Sulphur Caldron. Info added. --mav

Why does Great Fountain Geyser redirect here? Isn't it also a distinct geyser? Revpfil (talk) 01:29, 27 February 2008 (UTC) Because noone made a separate article. --Eingangskontrolle (talk) 13:41, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal

I propose that any useful content of Bombshell Geyser be merged here and that that article be made a redirect. This is as there isn'tm much else that could be added to that artcile. Jezhotwells (talk) 13:54, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The RCN doesn't show a specific Bombshell Geyser, though the word bombshell does appear in a number of descriptions for very minor features in the Glen Africa Basin. I'm not even sure if there is anything worth merging to this article to be honest with you - heck, I'm not even sure that the GA basin itself rates a mention. Redirects are cheap, so I was WP:BOLD and put one in, but I would be mightily surprised if we ever see anybody wandering over here complaining. CosmicPenguin (talk• WP:WYO^Help!) 02:37, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Jolly good, I perhaps should have done that myself. Jezhotwells (talk) 07:54, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge Grand Prismatic Spring to Geothermal areas of Yellowstone

Oppose - I had hoped that User:Reywas92 would have explained why he proposed merging Grand Prismatic Spring to here, but I oppose the move. The Grand Prismatic Spring is the largest hot spring in the United States - that in and of itself is deserving of an article even if it wasn't located in Yellowstone. In fact, I personally don't think there is much reason to redirect *any* named geyser or hot spring in Yellowstone to this page. CosmicPenguin (talk• WP:WYO^Help!) 19:59, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - All named geysers and hot springs are geographically notable in their own right.--Mike Cline (talk) 14:59, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There being no support for or further discussion of this merge after 2 weeks, I have chosen to remove the merge request.--Mike Cline (talk) 17:19, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mammoth Hot Springs-- Dead trees image

In the image File:Mammothterracetrees.jpg it says that it was the calcium carbonate the cause of the death of these trees. I think a reference for that claim is needed. It is not so clear whether it was the calcium carbonate (I can see there is a lot of it) or much more toxic ones as sulfates and nitrates also present in thermal areas. If there is no so reference it is safer (according to neutrality) to just say that the high concentration of salts (in general) killed the trees, although it would remain questionable because it could have been high temperatures or who knows how many other phenomenons can kill a tree in such an unstable environment. franklin 01:50, 5 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, it also says "calcium carbonate dissolved in hot spring water...". Calcium carbonate is not soluble in water! If it is dissolved it was provably calcium sulfate or maybe calcium chloride... and then it is more likely that it was the sulfate ions or cloride's the ones that killed the tree. In any case I find that claim very questionable so please provide references or change it.

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