Tell me more about geysers and mud pots!

"The Yellowstone basin offers the most astounding variety of geysers, hot springs, and mud pots that the world has ever known! Here, boiling water bubbles to the surface in dramatic ways. Geysers spray water and steam hundreds of feet into the air. Hot springs stain the earth in fantastic colors. Mud pits simmer and splat as if on a giant earthen stove.

" But I am an artist—I describe with paint, not with words. Let our esteemed expedition leader, Mr. Hayden, tell you more:

"Perhaps the most striking exhibition of Nature’s forces in this wonderful region is that of the ‘Grand Geyser.’ The display was grand beyond description. As we stood near the crater or basin, it threw up, with scarcely any preliminary warning, a column of hot water eight feet in diameter to the height of two hundred feet; and so steady and uniform did the force act, that the column of water appeared to be held there for some minutes. The steam poured out in immense masses, rising in clouds a thousand feet or more in height."
                                                                                –Ferdinand Hayden, 1871

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