Flower-shaped hot spring with vivid rings of yellow, orange, and green surrounding a deep blue center, with colors that shifted as debris gradually reduced its water temperature.
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Morning Glory Pool is a hot spring in the Yellowstone Upper Geyser Basin. The pool was named by Mrs E. N. McGowan, wife of Assistant Park Superintendent, Charles McGowan in 1883. She called it "Convolutus", the Latin name for the morning glory flower, which the spring resembles. By 1889, the name Morning Glory Pool had become common usage in the park.
The distinct color of the pool is due to bacteria which inhabit the water. On a few rare occasions the Morning Glory Pool has erupted as a geyser, usually following an earthquake or other nearby seismic activity.
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