Pink Cone Geyser

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Pink Cone Geyser is a geyser in the Lower Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park in the United States.

Pink Cone Geyser is part of the Pink Cone Group. Other geysers in this groups are Bead Geyser, Box Spring, Dilemma Geyser, Labial Geyser, Narcissus Geyser, and Pink Geyser.

Eruptions of Pink Cone Geyser last 1¹⁄₂—2 hours and are 30 feet (9 m) high. The interval between eruptions is 9—22 hours.

Pink Cone Geyser was named after the color of its cone. It has the same pink color as Pink Geyser and Narcissus Geyser indicating that the three are tied together although they do not seem to affect each other.

[edit] References

• Pink Cone Group. Geyser Observation and Study Association (GOSA). Retrieved on 2005-09-22.

[edit] External links

• Images of Pink Cone Geyser. Retrieved on September 22, 2005.
• Video of Pink Cone Geyser. Retrieved on September 22, 2005.
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