Chemical studies of selected trace elements in hot-spring drainages of Yellowstone National Park

doi:10.2172/5641395

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Intensive chemical studies were made of S(-II), O/sub 2/, Al, Fe, Mn, P, As(III), As(V), and Li in waters from two high-Cl, low Ca-Mg hotspring drainages in the Lower Geyser Basin, a warm spring system rich in Ca and Mg in the Yellowstone Canyon area, and the Madison River system above Hebgen Lake. Analyses were also made of other representative thermal waters from the Park.

Conditions in the deeper parts of the hot spring systems of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. [Proposed aquifer at depth of 2 to 4 km. , at 340 to 370/sup 0/C, and containing about 1,000 ppM NaCl]

Truesdell, A.H. ; Fournier, R.O. January 1976

It is suggested that beneath Yellowstone thermal systems there is a large aquifer at a depth of 2 to 4 kilometers which contains a relatively homogeneous body of water at 340 to 370/sup 0/C containing about 1,000 ppM NaCl. This aquifer may be controlled entirely or in part by solution or fracture permeability that transects rock types. Water flows upwards from the deep aquifer along available fractures, losing steam in the process, and into more shallow aquifers that in turn feed the geyser and hot spring systems. In these shallow systems, it is diluted, reacts with rocks and fluids, andmore »« less
DOI: 10.2172/7321574

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Chemical analyses of waters from geysers, hot springs, and pools in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming from 1974 to 1978

Thompson, J.M. ; Yadav, S. January 1979

Waters from geysers, hot springs, and pools of Yellowstone National Park have been analyzed. We report 422 complete major ion analyses from 330 different locations of geysers, hot springs, and pools, collected from 1974 to 1978. Many of the analyses from Upper, Midway, Lower, and Norris Geyser Basin are recollections of features previously reported.
DOI: 10.2172/6254732

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Chemical indicators of subsurface temperature applied to hot spring waters of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. [Silica geothermometer, alkali ratios, Cl/(HCO/sub 3/ + CO/sub 3/) ratio]

Fournier, R.O. ; Truesdell, A.H. January 1970 - Geothermics
DOI: 10.1016/0375-6505(70)90051-9
Inventory of thermal features of the Firestone River Geyser Basins and other selected areas of Yellowstone National Park. Final report

Marler, G.D. June 1973
Geology and thermal history of Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Bargar, K.E. January 1978

Mammoth Hot Springs, located about 8 km inside the north entrance to Yellowstone National Park, consists of nearly 100 hot springs scattered over a score of steplike travertine terraces. The travertine deposits range in age from late Pleistocene to the present. Sporadic records of hot-spring activity suggest that most of the current major springs have been intermittently active since at least 1871. Water moving along the Norris-Mammoth fault zone is heated by partly molten magma and enriched in calcium and bicarbonate. Upon reaching Mammoth this thermal water (temperature about 73/sup 0/C) moves up through the old terrace deposits along preexistingmore »« less

Title: Chemical studies of selected trace elements in hot-spring drainages of Yellowstone National Park

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Conditions in the deeper parts of the hot spring systems of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. [Proposed aquifer at depth of 2 to 4 km. , at 340 to 370/sup 0/C, and containing about 1,000 ppM NaCl]

Chemical analyses of waters from geysers, hot springs, and pools in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming from 1974 to 1978

Chemical indicators of subsurface temperature applied to hot spring waters of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. [Silica geothermometer, alkali ratios, Cl/(HCO/sub 3/ + CO/sub 3/) ratio]

Inventory of thermal features of the Firestone River Geyser Basins and other selected areas of Yellowstone National Park. Final report

Geology and thermal history of Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming