Ninety percent of Idaho’s 340 hot springs are the result of leftover energy heating water near fault lines. This energy is essentially leftover from a 17 million-year-old meteorite collision that occurred in present-day southeast Oregon. The collision dramatically altered the once lush, forested environment into the high desert landscape that is familiar today. The impact… Continue reading An Idaho Geothermal History Lesson
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