Half Dome (Calif.)
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Name (Hebrew)
חצי כיפה (קליפורניה)
Name (Latin)
Half Dome (Calif.)
Other forms of name
Ages, Rock of (Calif.)
Frances Peak (Calif.)
North Dome (Calif.)
Rock of Ages (Calif.)
Sentinel, The (Calif.)
South Dome (Calif.)
Tesaiyak (Calif.)
The Sentinel (Calif.)
Tisayac (Calif.)
Tissaack (Calif.)
To-co-yah (Calif.)
To-ko-ye (Calif.)
Coordinates
-119.5331667 -119.5331667 37.746 37.746 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Mountains California
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q925252
Library of congress:
sh2001010786
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Overland Trails Digital Library Collection 2001
- GNIS, Oct. 26, 2001
- Getty, Oct. 26, 2001
Wikipedia description:
Half Dome is a quartz monzonite batholith at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park, California. It is a well-known rock formation in the park, named for its distinct shape. One side is a sheer face while the other three sides are smooth and round, making it appear like a dome cut in half. It stands at nearly 8,800 feet above sea level and is composed of quartz monzonite, an igneous rock that solidified several thousand feet within the Earth. At its core are the remains of a magma chamber that cooled slowly and crystallized beneath the Earth's surface. The solidified magma chamber was then exposed and cut in half by erosion, therefore leading to the geographic name Half Dome.
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