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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.
Italiano: Eruzione del geyser Old Faithful, situato nel parco nazionale di Yellowstone, Stati Uniti d'America. È uno dei geyser più famosi al mondo. Il nome "Old Faithful", traducibile come "Vecchio Fedele", gli fu assegnato nel 1870 dalla spedizione Washburn-Langford-Doane. Fu il primo geyser del parco nazionale di Yellowstone a ricevere un ...
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 ...
The geyser Old Faithful was named on this day in history, Sept. 18, 1870, after an explorer noticed the eruptions were quite "faithful." It remains a popular tourist attraction.
The most recent volcanic eruption occurred in Yellowstone approximately 650,000 years ago resulting in a 30- by 45-mile caldera, or basin. ... Lucky guests can watch Old Faithful erupt from the ...
Yellowstone is known for its thermal features, like Old Faithful. “A geyser is a hot spring that throws water up in the air. That's the rarest of the thermal features, but we've got probably ...
On rare occasions at the right point, Beehive (seen in the distance) will synchronize eruptions with the larger nearby Old Faithful. Eruptions of Beehive Geyser last about 5 minutes and are 200 feet (61 m) high. The fountain maintains its full height for the duration of the eruption, dropping just slightly near the end.
The caldera formed during the last of three supereruptions over the past 2.1 million years: the Huckleberry Ridge eruption 2.1 million years ago (which created the Island Park Caldera and the Huckleberry Ridge Tuff), the Mesa Falls eruption 1.3 million years ago (which created the Henry's Fork Caldera and the Mesa Falls Tuff), and the Lava ...