{"id":20608,"date":"2017-07-28T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=20608"},"modified":"2017-07-28T06:29:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T10:29:09","slug":"daily-jim-pic-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2017\/07\/daily-jim-pic-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Jim pic 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_1270.jpg\" alt=\"deep blue mineral pool in Yellowstone National Park by James L. Kramer\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20609\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>If you&#8217;ve ever wondered where they get the water to make those colorful freezer pops, it&#8217;s Yellowstone National Park. This is the ambiguous &#8220;berry&#8221; pool.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I think this is from copper, but I could be wrong. Either way, there are enough minerals in the waters of the park to -&#8230; I can&#8217;t think of a good analogy, but there are a lot. Yellowstone has water that you have to chew. It&#8217;s all brought up by the geothermal activity in the region, a mantle plume of molten material that comes a lot closer to the surface than most other areas of the world, save for active volcanoes. Or, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.geoscienceworld.org\/geology\/article-lookup\/40\/5\/479\" target=\"_blank\">maybe not<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, geologists have said that there&#8217;s a potential eruption building under the park, and the entire area is actually higher in elevation than it was a few decades ago. It&#8217;s even visible here &#8211; doesn&#8217;t this look closer to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wondered where they get the water to make those colorful freezer pops, it&#8217;s Yellowstone National Park. This is the ambiguous &#8220;berry&#8221; pool. Actually, I think this is from copper, but I could be wrong. Either way, there are enough minerals in the waters of the park to -&#8230; I can&#8217;t think of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[1257,3936,3932],"class_list":["post-20608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-james-l-kramer","tag-mineral-pool","tag-yellowstone-national-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}