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Belgian Pool in Yellowstone National Park.

With over 10,000 geothermal features including hot springs, mudpots, fumaroles, and geysers, Yellowstone National Park provides vast habitats for a wide variety of thermotolerant and thermophilic organisms. Yellowstone's geologic setting serves as the driving force behind its numerous geothermal features.

The center of Yellowstone is a caldera which covers a large portion of the central area of the park. Volcanic activity below the caldera and the surrounding area releases tremendous heat to drive the hot springs, geysers, and other features. Groundwater from snow melt and other precipitation in the greater Yellowstone area is heated by molten rock below the surface. Once heated, the water finds a path through cracks and fissures of lava flows to the surface, where it emerges in geysers, hot springs, mudpots, and fumaroles.

Microscopic life thrives in Yellowstone's geothermal features. Many thermophiles take up re...

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