Yellowstone National Park

Taq polymerase was first found in a bacterium Ther mus aquaticus) that lives in hot springs in Yellowstone National Park Bacteria of this type are called ther mophiles because they thrive in warm environments... 

Meyer, G. A., Wells, S. G., and Jull, A. J. T. (1995). Fire and alluvial chronology in Yellowstone National Park Climatic and intrinsic controls on Holocene geomorphic processes. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 107, 1211-1230. 

Mcmenamin SK, Hadly EA, Wright CK (2008) Climatic change and wetland desiccation cause amphibian decline in Yellowstone National Park. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105 16988-16993... 

Fournier, R.O. and Truesdell, A.H. (1970) Chemical indicators of subsurface temperatures applied to hot spring waters of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, U.S.A. Geothermics, 2, 529-535. 

Figure 1.4 Hyperthermophile bacteria at Prismatic Lake in Yellowstone National Park. (A colour reproduction of this figure can be seen in the colour section). (Reproduced from a photo of Prismatic Lake by courtesy of National Park Service, Yellow Stone National Park)...

Fouke, B. W., G. T. Bonheyo, E. Sanzenbacher and J. Frias-Lopez, 2003, Partitioning of bacterial communities between travertine depositional facies at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, USA. Canadian Journal Earth Sciences 40,1531-1548. 

One of the most important of these extremophiles is a bacterium (Thermus acquaticus) discovered in 1965 in a Yellowstone National Park hot spring where the temperature is a constant 73 °C (Centigrade or Celsius) or 163 °F (Fahrenheit). About twenty years... 

Bullen TD, Kharaka YK (1992) Isotopic composition of Sr, Nd, and Li in thermal waters from the Norris-Mammoth corridor, Yellowstone National Park and surrounding region. Itr. Water-Rock Interaction, Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction. Kharaka YK, Maest AS (eds) Balkema Publishers, Rotterdam p 897-901... 

FIGURE 6.11 Marking by a pronghorn buck with his subauricular gland of a thistle in his natural environment (top Yellowstone National Park) and an experimental Teflon rod (bottom). (Photograph D. Miiller-Schwarze.)... 

Gilbert, B. K. (1973). Scent marking and territoriality in pronghorn [Antilocapra americana) in Yellowstone National Park. Mammalia 37,25-33. 

Ball, J. W., Nordstrom, D. K., Cunningham, K. M., Schoonen, M. A. A., Xu, Y. Demonge, M. 1998. Water-Chemistry and On-Situ Sulfur Specia-tion Data for Selected Springs in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, 1994-1995. USGS Open-file report 98-574, 35 pp. 

Langner, H.W., Jackson, C.R., Mcdermott, T.R. and Inskeep, W.P. (2001) Rapid oxidation of arsenite in a hot spring ecosystem, Yellowstone National Park. Environmental Science and Technology, 35(16), 3302-9. 

Planer-Friedrich, B., Lehr, C., Matschullat, J. et al. (2006) Speciation of volatile arsenic at geothermal features in Yellowstone National Park. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70(10), 2480-91. 

Planer-Friedrich, B., London, J., McCleskey, R.B. et al. (2007) Ihioarsenates in geothermal waters of Yellowstone National Park determination, preservation, and geochemical importance. Environmental Science and Technology, 41(15), 5245-51. 

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