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File:Angular glacial erratic on Lambert Dome-750px.jpg|thumb|Angular glacial erratic on Lembert Dome.
File:Angular glacial erratic on Lambert Dome-750px.jpg|thumb|Angular glacial erratic on Lembert Dome.
File:A079, Acadia National Park, Maine, USA, balanced rock, 2002.jpg|thumb|Bubble Rock, Acadia National Park, Maine
File:A079, Acadia National Park, Maine, USA, balanced rock, 2002.jpg|thumb|Bubble Rock, Acadia National Park, Maine
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=== Geysers ===
* Yellowstone, Wyoming is the largest geyser field in the world
** has 1,283 geysers that have erupted with 465 active per year
** Old Faithful geyser
*** "Old Faithful" erupts regularly between 44 minutes and two hours
** Steamboat geyser, Yellowstone
*** currently the tallest geyser in the world, reaching over 300ft
*** Steamboat does not erupt regularly, with intermittences of 3 days to 50 years
* Dolina Geizerov or "Valley of Geysers"
** second largest geyser field in the world
** located on Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia
** has about 90 geysers
** it is very remote, reachable only by helicopter
* El Tatio, Chile
** "El Tatio" means "grandfather" or "oven"
** located on a volcanic belt that spans across the Chilean and Bolivian border
** it is the third largest in the world
** at 14,170 ft in altitude it is likely the highest large geyser field in the world
* Waimangu Geyser, New Zealand (extinct)
** was the most powerful geyser in the world between 1900 and 1904, its 1st and last observations of major eruptions
** its plume reached 1500 ft
** now extinct due to a landslide that changed the water table
*** it went fully extinct in 1908
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File:OldFaithful1948.jpg|thumb|OldFaithful1948 at Yellowstone National Park (1948)
File:Steamboatgeyser1.jpg|thumb|Steamboat geyser at Yellowstone, the worlds tallest active geyser
File:Dead trees at Mammoth Hot Springs.jpg|thumb|Dead trees at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone
File:Valley of the Geysers.jpg|thumb|Valley of the Geysers, Kampchucka, Russia, the 2nd largest geyser field in the world
File:Géiseres del Tatio, Atacama, Chile, 2016-02-01, DD 01-02 HDR.JPG|thumb|"Géiseres del Tatio," Atacama, Chile, the third largest geyser field in the world
File:ElTatio-CerroSoquete-2004.jpg|thumb|The Andes rise behind El Tatio|alt=The steam plumes of the field at the feet of mountains, with higher snow-covered mountains far away
File:Waimangu geyser.jpg|thumb|Waimangu geyser, New Zealand, erupting in 1903. It went fully extinct in 1908.
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