hot spring: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	thermal spring

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People relaxing in tiered hot spring pools beside a stone building, with water cascading over rocks at Bagno Vignoni, Italy.

Hot springs at Beppu, Ōita prefecture, northeastern Kyushu, Japan.

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Morning Glory Pool in Yellowstone National Park, a vibrant hot spring with blue-green and yellow colors caused by cyanobacteria, surrounded by forest and a wooden walkway.

A cross-sectional diagram showing how a geyser and hot spring form above a magma chamber. Arrows illustrate heat rising from magma, groundwater moving through porous rock, and steam or hot water reaching the surface as a geyser or hot spring. Labels identify each layer and process.

hot springs and epithermal veins

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