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River Chemistry in Yellowstone National Park

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2001
End Date
2014

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McCleskey, R.B., Mahony, Dan, Hurwitz, Shaul, Heasler, Henry, Huebner, M.A., Lowenstern, J.B., 2017, River chemistry in Yellowstone National Park: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7GF0RRD.

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The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) was established as a collaboration between the U.S. Geological Survey and Yellowstone National Park "To strengthen the long-term monitoring of volcanic and earthquake unrest in the Yellowstone National Park region." Yellowstone National Park is underlain by a voluminous magmatic system overlain by the most active hydrothermal system on Earth. Tracking changes in water and gas chemistry is of great importance because anomalous fluxes might signal one of the earliest warnings of volcanic unrest. Because of the tremendous number, chemical diversity, and large aerial coverage of Yellowstone's thermal features, it remains daunting to monitor individual features that might serve as proxies for anomalous [...]

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The purpose of this Data Release is to provide chemical data from eleven river sites receiving thermal inputs from Yellowstone National Park. This Data Release supersedes USGS Data Series 278 v. 4.0 (Hurwitz and others, 2012).

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