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It was named in 1870 during the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition and was the first geyser in the park to be named. [3] [4] It is a highly predictable geothermal feature and has erupted every 44 minutes to two hours since 2000. [5] The geyser and the nearby Old Faithful Inn are part of the Old Faithful Historic District.
Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park. Photo taken by en:User:Colin.faulkingham on July 28, 2005 and released to the public domain. Source: English Wikipedia.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Old Faithful, perhaps the best-known geyser at Yellowstone National Park, is an example of a cone geyser. Grand Geyser, the tallest predictable geyser on Earth (although Geysir in Iceland is taller, it is not predictable), also at Yellowstone National Park, is an example of a fountain geyser. [15]
Visitors were left running for safety at Yellowstone National Park after a hydrothermal explosion sent rock and steam spewing into the air north of the Old Faithful geyser Tuesday, park officials ...