Yellowstone National Park is located in the U.S. states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. The Park has the world's most natural geysers. A natural geyser is a kind of hot water fountain in which the water comes out from the ground in the form of a fountain. There are about 300 natural geysers in this park. Yellowstone was the first national park in the U.S and is also widely held to be the first national park in the world. The park is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features. But this park is mainly popular for its Old Faithful geyser, which is one of its most popular features. Old Faithful is a cone geyser which was named in 1870 during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition and was the first geyser in the park to receive a name. There always happens a regular eruption in it. It is a highly predictable geothermal feature, and has erupted every 44 to 125 minutes since 2000.
There are more than 1,000,000 eruptions have been recorded. Eruptions can shoot 3,700 to 8,400 US gallons of boiling water to a height of 106 to 185 feet lasting from 1 1⁄2 to 5 minutes. The average height of an eruption is 145 feet.
On the afternoon of September 18, 1870, the members of the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition traveled down the Firehole River from the Kepler Cascades and entered the Upper Geyser Basin. The first geyser that they saw was Old Faithful. They gave it the name of "Old Faithful". They said that it was spouted at regular intervals nine times during our stay and columns of boiling water being thrown from ninety to one hundred and twenty-five feet at each discharge, which lasted from fifteen to twenty minutes. In the early days of the park, Old Faithful was often used as a laundry. Garments placed in the crater during quiescence are ejected thoroughly washed when the eruption takes place. Gen. Sheridan's men, in 1882, found that linen and cotton fabrics were uninjured by the action of the water, but woolen clothes were torn to shreds. But even today, the reason of the eruptions in it has still become a puzzle for the geologists. Because there is no definite order of eruptions in it.
There are more than 1,000,000 eruptions have been recorded. Eruptions can shoot 3,700 to 8,400 US gallons of boiling water to a height of 106 to 185 feet lasting from 1 1⁄2 to 5 minutes. The average height of an eruption is 145 feet.
On the afternoon of September 18, 1870, the members of the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition traveled down the Firehole River from the Kepler Cascades and entered the Upper Geyser Basin. The first geyser that they saw was Old Faithful. They gave it the name of "Old Faithful". They said that it was spouted at regular intervals nine times during our stay and columns of boiling water being thrown from ninety to one hundred and twenty-five feet at each discharge, which lasted from fifteen to twenty minutes. In the early days of the park, Old Faithful was often used as a laundry. Garments placed in the crater during quiescence are ejected thoroughly washed when the eruption takes place. Gen. Sheridan's men, in 1882, found that linen and cotton fabrics were uninjured by the action of the water, but woolen clothes were torn to shreds. But even today, the reason of the eruptions in it has still become a puzzle for the geologists. Because there is no definite order of eruptions in it.
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