Bead Geyser
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Bead Geyser is a geyser in the Lower Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park in the United States.
Bead Geyser is part of the Pink Cone Group. Other geysers in this groups are Box Spring, Dilemma Geyser, Labial Geyser, Narcissus Geyser, Pink Geyser, and Pink Cone Geyser. Eruptions of Bead Geyser last about 21⁄2 minutes and are 25 feet (7.6 m) high. Bead is an extremely regular geyser. The interval between eruptions is 28—36 minutes. This changes with time but the average for any given time hardly varies. The duration is also highly regular at 150 seconds.
Bead Geyser was named after the geyser eggs that used to found near the geyser. Over the decades since it was discovered, souvenir hunters have removed all of the geyser eggs.
[edit] References
- Pink Cone Group. Geyser Observation and Study Association (GOSA). Retrieved on 2005-09-22.
[edit] External links
- Images of Bead Geyser. Retrieved on September 22, 2005.
- Video of Bead Geyser. Retrieved on September 22, 2005.
- Bead Geyser is at coordinates Coordinates:
