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Explainer: Yellowstone’s abundance of waterfalls

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — In the most recent Caldera Chronicles by the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO), U.S. Geological Survey Research Hydrologist Shaul Hurwitz uncovered how waterfalls are formed and why there are so many in the Yellowstone region. The YVO described a waterfall as “a very steep commonly vertical fall of some magnitude in a river […]

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