Many national parks were founded for their geology and yosemite is known throughout the world for its exceptional high cliffs and rounded domes.
Yosemite granite falling.
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Half dome is a massive granite feature at the east end of yosemite valley.
However most of the time the exfoliation processes result in rock slides and ballistic rock free falls are rare.
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Yosemite hiker killed in fall from half dome.
Named for its shape it rises 4 737 feet from the valley floor.
Yosemite s granite cliffs are breathing and heat can make them fall geologists studied a slab of rock slowly peeling from yosemite s royal arches to see how temperature affects.
Visitors to the park from hikers to rock climbers experience a landscape dominated by granite.
A massive hunk of rock fell off yosemite national park s el capitan on thursday a day after a rockfall in the same area of the granite monolith killed a british tourist and seriously injured.
El capitan granite is mostly unjointed.
The best hikes in yosemite wind through valleys climb up granite faces to waterfall views and traverse alpine meadows through some of the most spectacular scenery in the lower 48.