As the road descends to the Mammoth Hot Springs area, we passes "The Hoodoos." These are not the traditional hoodoos caused by differential weathering but this jumbled mess of travertine (hot soring deposited rock) that slid off Terrace mountain. So what you see is 63,000 year old hot spring-produced rock that was buried beneath glacial till which then slid off the mountaintop which was uplifted. The travertine used to be at the valley floor but was uplifted by magma beneath Yellowstone and eventually ended up at the top of a mountain. Its called topographic inversion. More descriptions on adjoin photos.
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October 28, 2018
October 28, 2018
October 28, 2018
October 28, 2018
October 28, 2018
October 28, 2018
October 28, 2018