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Hot Creek is aptly named. It refers to a geologic site in Mammoth Lakes that lies about three miles above the surface of an underground chamber of magma. The heat from the volcanic activity below the earth’s surface sends hot gas and boiling water bubbling up to the surface, gaining pressure and heat along the way until it turns to gusts of steam when it reaches the air. The creek that results is hot and dangerous, and visitors are prohibited from entering the water, but it sure is beautiful to look at, with a bubbling creek bed, occasional geyser eruptions, and steaming holes in the ground called fumaroles.

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