
Half Dome at Sunset
Half Dome is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, located in northeastern Mariposa County, California, at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley. The granite crest rises more than 1,444 m above the valley floor.
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- Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (861)
- Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (490)
- Tectonics and Structural Geology (551)
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- North America (740)
- Northern America (579)
- United States of America (386)
- Exact location (-119.5330 W, 37.7461 N)
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Nikon D90
Taken on 22
August
2010
Submitted on March 1, 2014
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Credit
Alessandro Demarchi (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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Reema Singh 5 years, 9 months ago
Love this picture!