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Norris Geyser Basin

PORCELAIN BASIN

Porcelain Basin resembles an alien landscape. The area’s open terrain is covered with sheets of geyserite and bleached rock, and is punctuated by hundreds of densely packed hydrothermal features.

The boardwalk meanders through Porcelain Basin

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