Pink Cone Geyser erupting in August 2011 (Pink Cone Group, Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Hotspot, northwestern Wyoming, USA).
This geyser has a moderately small, subsymmetrical geyserite cone. The coloration has been attributed to manganese oxide staining of the geyserite.
Pink Cone Geyser has ~1.5 to 2 hour-long eruptions about once a day, although this has changed in the past. Dormancies have also occurred. Erupting water column heights reach about 30 feet high.
When active, a slightly-expanding jet of water erupts ~vertically. Eruptions include pauses of several seconds that involve just steam emissions before water eruption resumes.
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Pink Cone Geyser erupting in August 2011 (Pink Cone Group, Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Hotspot, northwestern Wyoming, USA).
This geyser has a moderately small, subsymmetrical geyserite cone. The coloration has been attributed to manganese oxide staining of the geyserite.
Pink Cone Geyser has ~1.5 to 2 hour-long eruptions about once a day, although this has changed in the past. Dormancies have also occurred. Erupting water column heights reach about 30 feet high.
When active, a slightly-expanding jet of water erupts ~vertically. Eruptions include pauses of several seconds that involve just steam emissions before water eruption resumes.
Tags: Pink Cone Geyser Group Firehole Lake Drive Lower Basin Yellowstone geology Wyoming geysers hot springs spring
Pink Cone Geyser erupting in August 2011 (Pink Cone Group, Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Hotspot, northwestern Wyoming, USA).
This geyser has a moderately small, subsymmetrical geyserite cone. The coloration has been attributed to manganese oxide staining of the geyserite.
Pink Cone Geyser has ~1.5 to 2 hour-long eruptions about once a day, although this has changed in the past. Dormancies have also occurred. Erupting water column heights reach about 30 feet high.
When active, a slightly-expanding jet of water erupts ~vertically. Eruptions include pauses of several seconds that involve just steam emissions before water eruption resumes.
The above photo shows steam emissions during one of the seconds-long pauses in water eruption.
Tags: Pink Cone Geyser Group Firehole Lake Drive Lower Basin Yellowstone geology Wyoming geysers hot springs spring
Pink Cone Geyser erupting in August 2011 (Pink Cone Group, Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Hotspot, northwestern Wyoming, USA).
This geyser has a moderately small, subsymmetrical geyserite cone. The coloration has been attributed to manganese oxide staining of the geyserite.
Pink Cone Geyser has ~1.5 to 2 hour-long eruptions about once a day, although this has changed in the past. Dormancies have also occurred. Erupting water column heights reach about 30 feet high.
When active, a slightly-expanding jet of water erupts ~vertically. Eruptions include pauses of several seconds that involve just steam emissions before water eruption resumes.
Tags: Pink Cone Geyser Group Firehole Lake Drive Lower Basin Yellowstone geology Wyoming geysers hot springs spring
Pink Cone Geyser is the namesake of the Pink Cone Group in Yellowstone’s Lower Geyser Basin. The vent is surrounded by a low, nearly symmetrical, moderately steep-sided geyserite cone that is colored dark reddish-brown. The coloration is attributed to manganese impurities. The cone was originally covered in finely nodulose geyserite, but vandalism by people and buffalo since the late 1800s has removed almost all of it.
An eruption occurs about once a day or so (18 to 28 hours or so). Eruption durations are between 1.5 and 2 hours. The latter parts of a Pink Cone Geyser eruption involve alternating water-phase spouting and steam-rich emissions. Forced steam emissions become increasingly common and less forceful near the end of the eruption. Eruption cessations are marked by sustained passive steaming. Occasional, slightly forced steam billowing occurs afterward.
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