Nature Journal

  Abyss Pool is a hot spring in the West Thumb Geyser Basin of   the Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming,  United States.   The colour of the water is turquoise blue and it is so clear that you can almost see through the water but you can't see the bottom. Hence the name Abyss pool. It is 53 feet deep and is the largest hot spring pool in Yellowstone Lake at West Thumb.  Although it is a dormant now it has been an active geyser in the past.  Last time it irrupted was in 1992 with plums of water reaching 30 -80 feet in the air.

  I visited the  West Thumb Geyser basin in the Yellowstone National Park on 28.09.20.  It is a hot Spring situated along the southern western border of the Yellowstone lake shore and extends few feet in to the lake. The spring look like a miniature pool and the water is so clear that you could see several feet below  from the surface. The scenic view from the West Thumb Geyser is spectacular. It gives you a view of the geyser with the lake and the mountains surrounding the lake as the backdrop. . . You can walk around the thermal and the lake along the wooden foot path, but make sure you never go off the recommended trails as the West Thumb and other springs along the lake are active hot springs and boiling hot. The West Thumb was created from a small volcanic eruption created 150, 000 years ago and the heated water from the West Thumb Geyser continues to flow in to the Yellowstone lake. It is the first thermal spring in the area that was described in...