Clepsydra Geyser

{{Short description|Geyser in the Lower Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park}}{{Infobox hot spring

| name = Clepsydra Geyser

| photo = ClepsydraGeyserMarler1961(2).jpg

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| photo_caption = Eruption

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| location = Yellowstone National Park, Teton County, Wyoming

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| elevation = {{convert|7254|ft|m}}{{cite gnis|1609409|Clepsydra Geyser}}

| hot_spring_type = Cone geyser

| height = {{convert|45|ft|m}}

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| frequency = Constant

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| map_image = FountainPaintPotsMap-Clepsydra.JPG

| map_caption = Location at Fountain Paint Pots

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

Clepsydra plays nearly continuously to heights of {{convert|45|ft}}.{{cite web |year=2006 |url=http://www.geyserstudy.org/geyser.aspx?pGeyserNo=CLEPSYDRA |title=Clepsydra Geyser |publisher=Geyser Observation and Study Association (GOSA) |access-date=2010-10-26 |archive-date=2010-09-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100929054600/http://geyserstudy.org/geyser.aspx?pGeyserNo=CLEPSYDRA |url-status=dead }} It was named by T. B. Comstock during the 1878 Captain Jones expedition,{{cite book |last=Bauer |first=Clyde Max |title=The Story of Yellowstone Geysers |publisher=Haynes Inc. |location=St Paul, MN |year=1937 |pages=97}} with its nomenclature derived from the Greek word for water clock. Prior to the 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake, it erupted regularly every three minutes.{{cite web |url=http://www.nps.gov/archive/yell/tours/fountainpaint/clepsydrageyser.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080619060442/http://www.nps.gov/archive/yell/tours/fountainpaint/clepsydrageyser.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 19, 2008 |title=Clepsydra Geyser |work=Fountain Paint Pot Nature Trail Tour |publisher=National Park Service}}

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|File:Clepsydra geyser 20190715 111455 VID.webm|2019

|File:Clepsydra Geyser (8 July 2014) 2 (15138646499).jpg|Not erupting, 2014

|File:Clepsydra Geyser (sunset, 1 August 2017) 1 (36244783350).jpg|At sunset, 2017

|File:Clepsydra geyser.jpg|1960

|File:ClepsydraGeyserHarry1965.jpg|From a distance, 1965

|File:Clepsydra Geyser at Fountain Paint Pot in Yellowstone.JPG|2003

|File:Crowded boardwalk in the Lower Geyser Basin (3a57fb5c-42a3-4be0-866b-29d2cb3dd528).jpg|People watching Clepsydra Geyser erupt, 2015

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