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Brimstone Basin
Thermal Area
in
Yellowstone NP
,
Rocky Mountains
near
Lake Village
,
WY
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Lt. Doane of the 1870 Washburn Langford Doane Expedition named this thermal area located along Yellowstone Lake’s Alluvium Creek. (See
Report of Lieutenant Gustavus C. Doane upon the so-Called Yellowstone Expedition of 1870
in Crampton 1932, Appendix M)
Sixteenth day. September 6 [1870]. We broke camp at 10.30, bearing eastward over the ridges for an hour, then turning south into an open valley, through which runs quite a stream [Alluvium Creek] of yellow sulphur water, heading in the mountain range close by. On the slope of this range, covering an area of 3 square miles, is the formation known as Brimstone Basin. The whole lower range of the slope for that space is covered with masses of either blue clay or yellow calcareous deposit, perforated by millions of minute orifices, through which sulphur vapor escapes, subliming in masses around the vents. These brimstone basins are numerous, and many of them miles in extent. They are generally found on the lower slopes of mountains, or at the foot of bluffs, but frequently occur in level districts. The latter class are always wet, and generally impassable, the crust of the earth being very thin, with a whitish mass of soft mud beneath – the most dangerous marsh imaginable. Several of our horses were scalded by breaking through in passing over such places.
— (Doane 1873)
Sources
Doane, Gustavus Cheyney.
Letter from the Secretary of War, Communicating the Report of Lieutenant Gustavus C. Doane upon the so-Called Yellowstone Expedition of 1870
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1873.
http://archive.org/details/letterfromsecret1873unit
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Whittlesey, L.H.
Yellowstone Place Names
. Second. Wonderland Publishing Company, 2006.
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