Buried Alive - Wyoming
Posted by: Volcanoguy
N 44° 31.557 W 110° 50.215
12T E 512958 N 4930304
Flora and Fauna sign in the Midway Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park.
Waymark Code: WMDYDG
Location: Wyoming, United States
Date Posted: 03/08/2012
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The sign is located along the boardwalk trail in Midway Geyser Basin at Excelsior Geyser.
The Buried Alive sign discusses the thousands of years worth of microbes that have grown in the overflow waters from Grand Prismatic Spring. These microbes are then cover by new layers of sinter and then new microbe layers develop. The view from this sign show a wall of the Excelsior Geyser crater made up of hundreds of these alternating layers.
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