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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.
A hydrothermal explosion violently shook part of Yellowstone National Park's Biscuit Basin Tuesday. Here's what we know and the science behind it.
An unusually large eruption of a geyser at Yellowstone National Park's Biscuit Basin occurred Tuesday, sending parkgoers running for cover.
No one was injured, but the July 23 explosion in the Biscuit Basin area, just 2 miles north of the famous Old Faithful geyser, damaged a boardwalk and nearby thermal pools.
The explosion, probably caused by a change in the plumbing under the hot spring, launched a plume of water and rock fragments 400–600 feet (120–180 m) into the air. [12] Although there were no injuries, the explosion forced the closure of Biscuit Basin for the rest of the 2024 season.
This complement of features includes the most famous geyser in the park, Old Faithful Geyser, as well as four other predictable large geysers. One of these large geysers in the area is Castle Geyser which is about 1,400 feet (430 m) northwest of Old Faithful. Castle Geyser has an interval of approximately 13 hours between major eruptions, but ...
According to the NPS, the woman, from Windsor, N.H., was walking off-trail in a thermal area near Mallard Lake Trailhead at Old Faithful on Monday, Sept. 16, when she "broke through a thin crust ...
Geysir is technically a hot water pool geyser rather than a cone geyser so much heat is lost to the atmosphere explaining why the maximum temperature in its conduit is several meters below the top of the water column rather than at the top like is the case with Old Faithful. [10]