It s a big blue pool with the color of the outer area is lighter blue than the inner one the water is clear the pool looks beautiful and has some mist on top of it it s located in the biscuit basin easily accessible.
Sapphire pool yellowstone facts.
Sapphire pool is located in an isolated group of thermal features known as biscuit basin in yellowstone national park.
The pool was named by chief park naturalist clyde m.
There are more than 10 000 hydrothermal features in yellowstone.
It s a big blue pool with the color of the outer area is lighter blue than the inner one the water is clear the pool looks beautiful and has some mist on top of it it s located in the biscuit basin easily accessible.
A visitor in 1883 described it as a great pure sparkling sapphire rippling with heat.
Sapphire pool dominates the main group west of the river.
The water of this pool or spring is crystal clear with a oriental blue sapphire tint.
Whittlesey in yellowstone place names.
Other important features include shell geyser which has a golden lined crater and jewel geyser known.
Biscuit basin which is part of the upper geyser basin contains a very small number of thermal features.
Geothermal features of yellowstone name location image.
Bauer possibly after a reference to lieutenant g c.
Sapphire pool on a summer day at yellowstone s biscuit basin.
The four types of thermal features are geysers hot springs mud pots and fumaroles.
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Bk5b3a rm beautiful blue water of sapphire pool biscuit basin in the upper geyser basin.
Henderson used the name biscuit.
But the few that are there are spectacular.
Sapphire pool upper geyser basin sawmill geyser.
It s a big blue pool with the color of the outer area is lighter blue than the inner one the water is clear the pool looks beautiful and has some mist on top of it it s located in the biscuit basin easily accessible.
Lower geyser basin.
This is a sortable table of the notable geysers and geothermal features of yellowstone national park.
Upper geyser basin.