Chemical analysis of the waters of the Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming from 1965 to 1973

Open-File Report 75-25
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Abstract

Analyses of Yellowstone Park thermal waters have been reported by many investigators extending back almost one hundred years. The first detailed analyses were reported by Gooch and Whitfield (1888). Allen and Day (1935) were second. White, Brannock, and Murata (1956) and Morey, Fournier, Hemley, and Rowe (1961) reported field analyses of dissolved silica content of hot springs. White, Hem, and Waring (1963) reported six new chemical analyses. Noguchi and Nix (1963) reported partial analyses of five geysers. Rowe, Fournier, and Morey (1973) published the analyses of 166 samples from 89 different locations and the previous analyses of the same hot springs and geysers from 1888 to their study. The analyses compiled here are from 541 samples from 405 different locations of streams, rivers, cold springs, warm springs, hot springs, pools, and geysers.

We are indebted to many colleagues at the Survey who have contributed to this report. These include Manuel Nathenson for his help in writing the computer program, E. E. Bell and H. S. Cortez for coding the analyses, R. O. Fournier, L. P. J. Muffler, A. H. Truesdell, and D. E. White for collecting and locating the water samples. We are also grateful to the U. S. National Park Service for their cooperation and assistance.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Chemical analysis of the waters of the Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming from 1965 to 1973
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 75-25
DOI 10.3133/ofr7525
Year Published 1975
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Description 59 p.
Country United States
State Wyoming
Other Geospatial Yellowstone National Park
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