slgwv's photos with the keyword: hot spring

Extending east, almost linearly, from the currently active spring. It appears that a fault or fissure localized the spring.

The spring itself, emerging from the ground on top of the mound of deposits it's laid down. Here it's too hot to put a finger in, but still cool enough for thermophilic algae.

Actively precipitating salts, and cool enough to support an algae population. It's about the temperature of the hot water from the tap. At the east edge of the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, right on the Jackson Ranch road. Yes, this area has geothermal potential, but it's protected from development by its proximity to the Black Rock wilderness. The left inset is a close-up of the spring itself, on the top of this sinter mound. The right inset is a view east from the top of the mound, showing an elongate ridge of spring deposits. Apparently a fault or fissure localizes the spring; hence the linear form of the deposits. The outflow from the spring makes a little pond that evidently is valuable for livestock (adjacent photo).

A hot spring right alongside the Little Humboldt River, Nevada, between Paradise Valley and Chimney Dam Reservoir. The title is the name as it appears on the 7.5' USGS topo map--kind of generic! The contorted rock around is travertine, a freshwater limestone deposited by the spring over time. The unsavory-looking greenish-rusty floating circular things are not lily pads but algal mats. This spring is cool enough to support thermophilic algae, but it's too hot for anything else. Downstream, where the outlet flows into the Little Humboldt, people have improvised a hot tub (inset), but we didn't try it.

Yet another view, showing the car for scale. The bowl is about 50 ft (15 m) deep.

A spectacular hot pool in a large travertine basin out in the middle of Monitor Valley, northern Nye County, Nevada, USA. Anywhere else this would be a park, with entrance fees, interpretive stations, and crowds; here it's just out in the BLM land, only shut off by a barbed wire fence! Feature, not bug-- The temperature of the pool is around 160 F, IIRC--not boiling, but plenty hot enough to scald quickly. It obviously is cool enough to support an algal population. No one seems to know who "Diana" was. Perhaps the name was given by some early settler with a taste for the classics, altho I don't remember the Roman goddess as being particularly associated with things like hot springs. It's also called "Devil's" punchbowl, which is more understandable if a lot more generic.