as seen from the area of the Great Fountain Geyser. Both located in the Lower Geyser Basin.
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The Palette Spring is located in the Lower Terraces at Mammoth. It displays an array of colors that come from microbial biofilms growing in the hot and mineral-rich waters of the spring. Yellowish-green colors are mostly from Synechococcus, orange from Oscillatoria and Phormidium. Dark green from Chloroflexus and Chlorobium, brownish-black from Calothrix. All of these grow on different types of minerals, and some actually depend on the end product of the others.
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Hawaii's Big Island is getting bigger due to the continuous activity of the Kīlauea volcano since 1983. The lava flows down to the coast entering the sea. Extreme cooling of the lava when it meets sea water causes it to turn into black sand; extreme heating of the sea water releases an acidic plume containing water, vapor hydrochloric acid gas (from the sea salt) and volcanic particles.
These photos were taken just after sunset at the Kalapana site.
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Hawaii's Big Island is getting bigger due to the continuous activity of the Kīlauea volcano since 1983. The lava flows down to the coast entering the sea. Extreme cooling of the lava when it meets sea water causes it to turn into black sand; extreme heating of the sea water releases an acidic plume containing water, vapor hydrochloric acid gas (from the sea salt) and volcanic particles.
These photos were taken just after sunset at the Kalapana site.
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Hawaii's Big Island is getting bigger due to the continuous activity of the Kīlauea volcano since 1983. The lava flows down to the coast entering the sea. Extreme cooling of the lava when it meets sea water causes it to turn into black sand; extreme heating of the sea water releases an acidic plume containing water, vapor hydrochloric acid gas (from the sea salt) and volcanic particles.
This photo was taken just before sunset at the Kalapana site.
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