Yellowstone - October 2016
Let me start by saying that Yellowstone has made a huge impression on us and that we're planning to visit this National Park (NP) during other seasons too in the future. Yellowstone is a geological smoking gun! Although several destructing events took place at this area about half a million years ago, one event overshadows all others ... a huge area, that is now the center of the park, suddenly exploded. In minutes the landscape was devastated. At the center only a smoldering caldera remained, a collapsed crater of 45 by 30 miles. Lava flows and rocks from volcanic eruptions cover most of the land area of Yellowstone. So most of the park rests atop a slumbering volcano that is showing renewed activity by the way 😳 ... however no eruption is expected in the near future 😅 The boiling hot springs, fumaroles, mud spots and geysers spread out over the park are indeed reminders that such an event is not unimaginable! In 1872 Yellowstone ...