Sapphire Pool Yellowstone Facts

Sapphire pool on a summer day at yellowstone s biscuit basin.

Sapphire pool yellowstone facts. This is a sortable table of the notable geysers and geothermal features of yellowstone national park. Bauer possibly after a reference to lieutenant g c. Other important features include shell geyser which has a golden lined crater and jewel geyser known. The four types of thermal features are geysers hot springs mud pots and fumaroles.

The name sapphire pool was chosen by frank j haynes when he captioned a picture with the name according to lee h. United states of america north america id. Sapphire pool upper geyser basin sawmill geyser. Upper geyser basin.

Geothermal features of yellowstone name location image. Henderson used the name biscuit. Whittlesey in yellowstone place names. 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. Biscuit basin which is part of the upper geyser basin contains a very small number of thermal features. A visitor in 1883 described it as a great pure sparkling sapphire rippling with heat. Lower geyser basin.

Doane s 1870 description of a spring in this area which spoke of the visibility of objects in the deep abysses of the pool. The water of this pool or spring is crystal clear with a oriental blue sapphire tint. Bk5b3a rm beautiful blue water of sapphire pool biscuit basin in the upper geyser basin. 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 is located in an isolated group of thermal features known as biscuit basin in yellowstone national park. Sapphire pool dominates the main group west of the river. The pool was named by chief park naturalist clyde m.