Yellowstone's Soda Butte in Winter #2
by Marcy Wielfaert
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Yellowstone's Soda Butte in Winter #2
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Marcy Wielfaert
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Photograph - Photography
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Soda Butte is not only very recognizable by it's cone shape, but also by the sulphuric smell in the air as you pass by this spot. Soda Butte, a striking hot spring cone about two and a half miles above the mouth of Soda Butte Creek, is the feature that suggested this place name. It was given by A. Bart Henderson, who had descended Cache Creek to the Lamar River with a prospecting party. He assumed that the cone and smell could be attributed to soda ash bicarbonate, but it was later discovered that it is actually a deposit of travertine that causes this shape and smell. By the time this discovery was made, however, the original name had stuck and was never officially changed.
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