Geothermal flow of hot, carbonate rich water, forms a forbidding landscape of cascading, dark orange and white limestone.

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Geothermal flow of hot, carbonate rich water, forms a forbidding landscape of cascading, dark orange and white travertine and limestone terraces with dead trees at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

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Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA
Photo credit: © Jeff Holcombe / Alamy / Afripics
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