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  • Yellowstone Geology - Glaciations

    [Last Modified: Jul 27, 2009]

    GIacial times never seem far away in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. If you were to walk the streets of Chicago on a hot August day, you would have a rough time believing that 150 centuries ago the land beneath the sidewalk was covered by ice thousands of feet thick. In Grand Teton National Park, on the same August day, you can view a glacier. From the valley floor, the Teton Glacier is only 4.5 miles to the west and 7,000...

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  • Yellowstone Caldera

    [Last Modified: Jul 27, 2009]

    Just a few years after Boyd's paper appeared, the U.S. Geological Survey mounted an extensive investigation of Yellowstone's geology, assigning some of its brightest young scientists to the task. Among them was Bob Christiansen, who studied the young ash flow tuffs in great detail. What follows is based on his research and that of his co-workers, including geologists, chemists, and geophysicists, some of whom continue their ...

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  • Volcano Information

    [Last Modified: Aug 08, 2008]

    February 2010 Yellowstone Seismicity Summary: During the first half of February 2010, Yellowstone continued to experience a large swarm of earthquakes on the Madison Plateau, near the northwest margin of the Yellowstone Caldera. Retrospective analysis shows that the swarm began on January 15, 2010 and picked up in intensity on the 17th of January. As of February 25, a total of 1,809 earthquakes had been automatically located for the entire swarm, including 14 with a magnitude greater than...

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  • Yellowstone National Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    [Last Modified: Mar 06, 2010]

    is a national park located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, though it also extends into Montana and Idaho. The Yellowstone was the first national park in the world, and is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful Geyser, one of the most popular features in the park.

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  • Yellowstone National Park - Park Summary

    This website is a travel log highlighting my six month cross-country road trip around the Continential United States. Its goal is to bring you along with me on my adventure and in the process provide useful travel information, ideas, encouragement and inspiration. Trip activities include visiting 36 states, driving (18,000+ miles), biking (550+ miles), hiking (100+ miles), skiing, snowshoeing, snapping 53,000+ digital pictures, visiting 23 communities, 20 parks, 5 forests, 7 monuments, 7...

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  • PrimalNature.org - Wildlife Sidelights

    [Last Modified: Feb 11, 2010]

    R.W. Kays, A. Curtis, and J. J. Kirchman hypothesize in an article in Biology Letters that the rapid expansion of coyotes in the northeastern United States is in part due to the hybridization of coyotes with wolves. Coyotes evolved in the western United States, where they hunted small animals. They began moving eastward in the late 1910s after wolves had been extirpated from eastern and midwestern states and expanses of forest in the East had been replaced by fields. A portion of...

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  • Photographing Yellowstone National Park: Where to Find Perfect Shots and How to Take Them
    Photographing Yellowstone National Park: Where to Find...

    [Author: Gustav W. Verderber] [Pages: 88] [ISBN: 0881507695] [Pub. Date: 2007]

    Customer Rating: 9 (7 votes)

    Product Description

    Expert photography advice the author provided to visitors to Yellowstone when he served there as the Kodak Ambassador in Yellowstone National Park. This guide is designed to allow the average visitor to comfortably manage the vast abundance of subjects within Yellowstone National Park and to answer the crucial questions of what is worth photographing and how to do that in a way that will result in postcard-perfect photos of the park's landscapes and wildlife. An appendix provides a suggested itinerary to plan a visit to each district. No park visitor should be without it. 4 maps.

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  • Day Hikes In Yellowstone National Park, 4th
    Day Hikes In Yellowstone National Park, 4th

    [Author: Robert Stone] [Pages: 184] [ISBN: 1573420484] [Pub. Date: 2005]

    Customer Rating: 9 (3 votes)

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    Yellowstone National Park is a magnificent area with beautiful, dramatic scenery and incredible hydrothermal features. Within its 2.2 million acres lies some of the earth's greatest natural treasures.

    Day Hikes in Yellowstone National Park includes a thorough cross-section of eighty-two hikes throughout this national park. Now in its fourth edition, the guide includes all of the park's most popular hikes as well as a wide assortment of secluded backcountry trails. Many hikes lead to hot springs, bubbling mud pots, steaming fumaroles, and geysers (including Old Faithful) that are predominant throughout the park. Several hikes explore the rim and interior of the Grand Canyon of...

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  • Hiking Yellowstone National Park, 2nd (Hiking Guide Series)
    Hiking Yellowstone National Park, 2nd (Hiking Guide Series)

    [Author: Bill Schneider] [Pages: 368] [ISBN: 0762725397] [Pub. Date: 2003]

    Customer Rating: 9 (12 votes)

    Product Description

    This thoroughly revised and updated guide features 109 hikes in Yellowstone National Park. Readers will find detailed maps, field-checked information on all of the trails, elevation charts, difficulty ratings, and ratings and information on backcountry camping. Hiking tips and information on avoiding confrontations with bears round out this classic guidebook.

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  • Yellowstone National Park for Kids, Preteens, and Teenagers: A Grande Guides Series...
    Yellowstone National Park for Kids, Preteens, and Teenagers:...

    [Author: Stephanie F Del Grande] [Pages: 72] [ISBN: 0595479731] [Pub. Date: 2008]

    Customer Rating: 8 (4 votes)

    Product Description

    Are you interested in Yellowstone or planning a trip to the park? If so, you’ll love Yellowstone National Park for Kids, Preteens, and Teenagers. Inside this detailed travel guide geared toward children, you’ll learn all you need to know about America’s first national park. For example, did you know that: Yellowstone was discovered by John Colter in the early 1800s but for over fifty years, most Americans did not believe the reports of steaming hot springs and bubbling mudpots? Yellowstone is one of the world’s biggest active volcanoes? The hot underground magma is what causes the geysers to erupt and when you visit Yellowstone you actually go inside the volcanic caldera....

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  • Yellowstone National Park, WY - Trails Illustrated Map #201
    Yellowstone National Park, WY - Trails Illustrated Map #201

    [Author: National Geographic] [ISBN: 1566952956] [Pub. Date: 2008]

    Customer Rating: 10 (2 votes)

    Product Description

    Detailed and accurate coverage for Yellowstone National Park. Includes a detailed road network and popular trails, complete with use restrictions, mileages, elevation gains, and difficulty ratings. Popular attractions and park services are clearly identified. UTM and Latitude/Longitude grids ensure ease of use with GPS or compass navigation.

    Scale = 1:126,720 Size: 26'' x 38''

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  • Yellowstone National Park Pocket Guide (Falcon Guide)
    Yellowstone National Park Pocket Guide (Falcon Guide)

    [Author: Ann Simpson and Rob Simpson] [Pages: 96] [ISBN: 0762748109] [Pub. Date: 2009]

    Product Description

    Yellowstone National Park Pocket Guide is an information-packed, pocket-size guide that helps visitors get the most out of their park visit in a unique, convenient, and portable package.

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  • Trees and Flowers of Yellowstone National Park
    Trees and Flowers of Yellowstone National Park

    [Author: Frank E. A. Thone] [Pages: 80] [ISBN: 1417936797] [Pub. Date: 2005]

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    1923. Approved by The National Park Service. Sketches by Margaret A. Thone and Photographs by J.E. Haynes. Contents: Flowers, poem; How the Plants Came to Yellowstone Park; Trees; Shrubs; Flowers; and Game Laws for Wild Flowers.

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  • Fishing Yellowstone National Park, 3rd: An Angler's Complete Guide to More than 100...
    Fishing Yellowstone National Park, 3rd: An Angler's Complete...

    [Author: Richard Parks] [Pages: 256] [ISBN: 1599211424] [Pub. Date: 2007]

    Product Description

    Fishing Yellowstone National Park is the definitive access guide for the Park's angling opportunities

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  • Interpreting the Landscape : Recent and Ongoing Geology of Grand Teton and Yellowstone...
    Interpreting the Landscape : Recent and Ongoing Geology of...

    [Author: J. M. M. Good and Kenneth L. Pierce] [Pages: 58] [ISBN: 0931895456] [Pub. Date: 1997]

    Customer Rating: 10 (1 vote)

    Product Description

    Presents the geologic processes in vivid and comprehensible terms.

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  • Yellowstone National Parks (True Books : National Parks)
    Yellowstone National Parks (True Books : National Parks)

    [Author: David Petersen] [Pages: 48] [ISBN: 0516273264] [Pub. Date: 2001]

    Customer Rating: 10 (1 vote)

    Product Description

    An introduction to the national park best known for its dramatic thermal features.

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