Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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White Dome Geyser (6 June 2024) - Part 2
Geysers are hot springs that episodically erupt columns of water. They occur in few places on Earth. The highest concentration of geysers anywhere is at the Yellowstone Hotspot Volcano in northwestern Wyoming, USA.
White Dome Geyser has one of the largest geyserite cones in all of Yellowstone. It is the most significant and most active member of the White Dome Group. It has an old, large, projecting, whitish gray to pinkish-orangish cone of geyserite (siliceous sinter) that sits atop a larger, low, paleo-hot spring geyserite mound.
White Dome Geyser’s eruptions are moderately frequent, originate from a fairly small vent, and are almost always two minutes long. Eruptions are not predictable, as intervals are rather erratic - they often occur every 20 to 30 minutes or so, but known intervals range from 9 minutes to over two hours. Short-duration spitting or very low spouting occasionally occurs. Sometimes, "minor eruptions" well less than a minute long will occur (one of those is in this video). Spitting or minor eruptions can ~closely precede a normal eruption.
Clip 1 - White Dome Geyser’s 2:56 to 2:58 PM eruption on 6 June 2024.
Clip 2 - White Dome Geyser’s 3:12 to 3:13 PM minor eruption on 6 June 2024. [time stamp 1:54]
Clip 3 - White Dome Geyser’s 3:20 to 3:22 PM eruption on 6 June 2024. [time stamp 2:27]
Clip 4 - White Dome Geyser’s 3:49 to 3:51 PM eruption on 6 June 2024. [time stamp 4:19]
Clip 5 - White Dome Geyser’s 4:21 to 4:23 PM eruption on 6 June 2024. [time stamp 5:59]
Clip 6 - White Dome Geyser’s 4:39 to 4:41 PM eruption on 6 June 2024. [time stamp 7:48]
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White Dome Geyser (6 June 2024) - Part 2
Geysers are hot springs that episodically erupt columns of water. They occur in few places on Earth. The highest concentration of geysers anywhere is at the Yellowstone Hotspot Volcano in northwestern Wyoming, USA.
White Dome Geyser has one of the largest geyserite cones in all of Yellowstone. It is the most significant and most active member of the White Dome Group. It has an old, large, projecting, whitish gray to pinkish-orangish cone of geyserite (siliceous sinter) that sits atop a larger, low, paleo-hot spring geyserite mound.
White Dome Geyser’s eruptions are moderately frequent, originate from a fairly small vent, and are almost always two minutes long. Eruptions are not predictable, as intervals are rather erratic - they often occur every 20 to 30 minutes or so, but known intervals range from 9 minutes to over two hours. Short-duration spitting or very low spouting occasionally occurs. Sometimes, "minor eruptions" well less than a minute long will occur (one of those is in this video). Spitting or minor eruptions can ~closely precede a normal eruption.
Clip 1 - White Dome Geyser’s 2:56 to 2:58 PM eruption on 6 June 2024.
Clip 2 - White Dome Geyser’s 3:12 to 3:13 PM minor eruption on 6 June 2024. [time stamp 1:54]
Clip 3 - White Dome Geyser’s 3:20 to 3:22 PM eruption on 6 June 2024. [time stamp 2:27]
Clip 4 - White Dome Geyser’s 3:49 to 3:51 PM eruption on 6 June 2024. [time stamp 4:19]
Clip 5 - White Dome Geyser’s 4:21 to 4:23 PM eruption on 6 June 2024. [time stamp 5:59]
Clip 6 - White Dome Geyser’s 4:39 to 4:41 PM eruption on 6 June 2024. [time stamp 7:48]
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