Old Faithful is a cone geyser in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, United States. It was named in 1870 during the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition and was the first geyser in the park to be named. It is a highly predictable geothermal feature and has erupted every 44 minutes to two hours since 2000. The geyser and the nearby Old Faithful Inn are part of the Old Faithful Historic District.
Eruption of Old Faithful in 1948
Waiting time between eruptions and the duration of the eruption for Old Faithful.
Old Faithful Crater, 1872 William Henry Jackson
From the 1878 U.S. Geological and Geographic Survey of the Territories
A geyser is a spring characterized by an intermittent discharge of water ejected turbulently and accompanied by steam. As a fairly rare phenomenon, the formation of geysers is due to particular hydrogeological conditions that exist only in a few places on Earth.
Strokkur geyser, Iceland
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