Clepsydra Geyser
Clepsydra geyser plays from several vents in and around its yellow cone next to a shallow blue pool. This photo was taken on the afternoon of July 8, 2024. Because of the regularity of its eruption in 1873, this geyser was named after the Greek water clock by geologist, Theodore B. Comstock, a member of the Jones Expedition (1873). Clepsydra, which is located in the Lower Geyser Basin near Fountain Geyser in Yellowstone National Park Wyoming, was not always regular in the period between 1873 and 1959. It did have periods of eratic behavior and even dormancy. After the 1959 earthquake it entered into a ‘wild phase” and has erupted almost continually since pausing sometimes for a few minutes at the end of a Fountain eruption.
Clepsydra Geyser
Clepsydra geyser plays from several vents in and around its yellow cone next to a shallow blue pool. This photo was taken on the afternoon of July 8, 2024. Because of the regularity of its eruption in 1873, this geyser was named after the Greek water clock by geologist, Theodore B. Comstock, a member of the Jones Expedition (1873). Clepsydra, which is located in the Lower Geyser Basin near Fountain Geyser in Yellowstone National Park Wyoming, was not always regular in the period between 1873 and 1959. It did have periods of eratic behavior and even dormancy. After the 1959 earthquake it entered into a ‘wild phase” and has erupted almost continually since pausing sometimes for a few minutes at the end of a Fountain eruption.