Morning Glory Pool

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Yellowstone National Park is one of the most dynamic places on Earth. From geysers -- including famed Old Faithful -- to rainbow colored pools -- including the Morning Glory Pool -- to boiling mudpots and fumaroles, Yellowstone National Park is a rare example of geology in motion. The park, in the northeast corner of Montana and the northwest corner of Wyoming, sits over a hotspot -- a weakness in the earth's crust -- that allows magma to rise dangerously close to the surface. Over 2 million years, the hotspot has led to several super volcano eruptions, the most recent being 640,000 years ago. The eruptions have been so powerful that they have fractured mountain ranges, buried the northw...

Morning Glory Pool

Morning Glory Pool was named for its similarity to a morning glory flower. Learn more about it in this video that concludes the guided tour of the Upper Geyser Basin. Video Copyright © Yellowstone National Park Web Video Team More Info: http://www.geologypage.com/2016/05/morning-glory-pool.html Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/geology.page Twitter : http://twitter.com/geologypage Youtube : http://www.youtube.com/user/GeologyPage Google+ : https://plus.google.com/+Geologypagecom/ LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/company/geology-page Pinterest : http://www.pinterest.com/GeologyPage Instagram : http://instagram.com/geologypage Tumblr: http://geologypage.tumblr.com/ Geology Page: ...