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Published: 2011-10-15 13:03:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 1500; Favourites: 109; Downloads: 38
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We stopped at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park and I started to get hungry. Boiling hot water and calcium carbonate produced a smell like hard boiled eggs. Travertine [the white material in this view] is a type of limestone and is formed by a process of rapid precipitation of calcium carbonate, often at the mouth of a hot spring or in a limestone cave. In the latter, it can form stalactites and stalagmites. It is frequently used in Italy and elsewhere as a building material.Related content
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Very nice image! I believe the eggs smell is from sulfur.
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Thank you Alban... we had a spectacular trip!!!
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Lovely work mate.....looks a very inhospitable place.
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Great Shot! I spent a day there in July for the first time. Not many pics turned out liked i had hoped but this one is rally beautiful! the detail is perfect and the touch of color in the sky makes the shot! Great Work!
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Thank you very much... we got lucky throughout our entire trip... but this was the best of the best!!! There were a few other photographers around and when the sunset finished we "high-fived" each other and one stated that this sunset was a "once every five year event" and that our timing was very fortunate! I'm still overwhelmed as I run through that night's shots!!!
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Beautiful photo! We had the privilege of going out there one year. Sooo pretty, though that smell is not something one soon forgets
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