‘else tan Fark ‘ons gi wore Feet tn grr, Ietaprnge ended po Higepat “Heere it comes!” my son Kevin shouted, We feta rumble beneath our fet, We heard a noise lke a roaring train. Bolling water shot out of the around and Blew high into the ar ‘Wo were watehing a geyser in Yellowstone Nationel Park. Yellowstone covers aig part of Wyoming plas parts of Montana and Idaho. Geysers, hot springs, and mud pots fill the park. That's because much of ‘Yllowstone sisi. giant voleano Hundreds of thonsands of years ago, the voleano at Yellowstone erupted. The explosion was huge. Itleft a rater in the earth called a caldera, Much ofthe park {sin the caldera ‘his is Ole Faithful Geyser. Old Faithful erupts shout every 90 minutes lot cock les deep inside the earth. It boils water inthe ground, The hottest water becomes steam. The steam forees water up through the ground, making a seyser, Some geysers shoot water to height of 20 fet. ‘That's more than twice as tall as the White House ‘Snow-hite roe, called sinter, covers the ground around the geysers eset 3Below is Mammoth Hot Springs. Hot water Doils up through crue in the earth Then the ‘water evols down, Minerals in the water harden to form rock, Thisisa hot spring, ‘Sulfur and other minerals can tara the hot springs yellow orother colors, ‘Tiny ving ereatures (bueteria) and plants (algae) ‘srr in the ot water. The bacteria and algae make thick, gocey mats of bright eolors. 8 meson Mev 5