File:In a Hard Place, Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite 5-15 (25507982585).jpg
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(1 in a multiple picture album) When we think of a meadow, we picture rich soil with green growth on top. And that is true of Tuolumne Meadows too. However, the top soil is very thin and covers a huge dome of granite. You see, Yosemite is really a gigantic mass of granite, maybe one of the largest on earth. Over eons, rivers and glaciers somehow carved 3,000 feet into this solid granite to create Yosemite Valley. So when you are down in the valley you are looking up 3000 feet to the top of formations such as Half Dome and El Capitan. When you walking Tuolumne Meadows you are walking on top of the mass of granite from which Yosemite Valley was carved. And this "mother dome" has a few smaller domes which stick out from the thin top soil. What looks like a large boulder in the foreground is really just a bump on the big granite mass. There are other, large domes, like Lembert Dome in the distance which are 300-500 feet high. |
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| Source | In a Hard Place, Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite 5-15 |
| Author | Don Graham from Redlands, CA, USA - God bless it! |
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