Name: Black Sand Pool

 

County: Teton

 

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GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1105103W

Latitude: 442800N

 

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Elevation: 7326/2233

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Feature Type: Spring

 

Origin of Name:

Thermal spring, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., near north end of Black Sand Basin along road from Firehole River.

Source: Decisions, 1890-1932

 

No person who visits the Upper Geyser Basin should fail to see Black Sand Pool. It lies to the south of the main Upper Basin, and is reached by a road leading past the beautiful Punch Bowl Spring. Black Sand Pool is an oval spring some 40 feet long by 20 or 25 feet wide. The water is of a light blue sapphire or turquoise color—it is not easy to name the precise tint in many instances — extremely beautiful, from whose surface the steam constantly rises. The great peculiarity about it is that the encircling sides, which are in places fifteen feet high or more, are composed of black, probably decomposed obsidian, sand.

Source: Wheeler, 1895 

 

Other Names: Black Sand Spring

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Old Faithful

 

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