Clepsydra Geyser is a

geyser A geyser (, ) is a spring characterized by an intermittent discharge of water ejected turbulently and accompanied by steam. As a fairly rare phenomenon, the formation of geysers is due to particular hydrogeological conditions that exist only ...

in the Lower Geyser Basin of

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in the

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. Clepsydra plays nearly continuously to heights of . It was named by T. B. Comstock during the 1878 Captain Jones expedition, with its nomenclature derived from the Greek word for water clock. Prior to the

1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake The 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake (also known as the 1959 Yellowstone earthquake) occurred in the western United States on August 17 at 11:37 pm ( MST) in southwestern Montana. The earthquake measured 7.2 on the moment magnitude scale, caused a hu ...

, it erupted regularly every three minutes.

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