Name: Bunsen Peak

 

County: Park

 

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GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1104225W

Latitude: 445554N

 

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Elevation: 8527/2599

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Summit

 

Origin of Name:

Peak, altitude 8,100 feet, Yellowstone National Park ... . Named by Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1872, for Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, eminent chemist and physicist who investigated the action of geysers and first explained the phenomenon.

Source: Decisions, 1890-1932

 

Peak in Yellowstone Park, named by the United States Geological Survey for the eminent chemist and physicist, Robert Wilhelm Bunsen.

Source: Gannett

 

Other Names:  Observation Mount

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Mammoth

 

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Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Bunsen Peak, a roughly circular body of intrusive igneous rock, is the eroded remnant of either the "neck" of an Absaroka volcano or a small stock that solidified directly beneath a volcano. The peak rises approximately 1,200 feet above a flat plain (foreground) that is covered by flows of younger basalt. The Yellowstone Tuff, formed by volcanic ash and dust exploded from the central Yellowstone region to the south, underlies the basalt. When erupting, the volcanic debris (as well as the basalt lava) flowed around the high-standing peak. 1970. Figure 21, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1347.

Photograph by J. R. Stacy, 1970

Courtesy of the United States Geological Survey Photographic Library